† electn.¹

Etymology: ? < elect v.; or ? < Latin ēlectus , < ēligĕre ; see elect v.

Obsolete.

= election n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > [noun]

curec1000

custOE

chirec1175

choosingc1200

choice1297

walea1352

dilection1388

election1393

elect1398

choose1430

option1549

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. xix. 44 By electes and choys [L. electione] of his owne free aduysement he..wolde be rebell agaynst god.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 141 Schire Henry..Wald þis Elect had beene undone Sua þat his son mycht be Promovit to þat Dignite.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

electadj.n.²

Brit.

/ᵻˈlɛkt/, U.S.

/əˈlɛk(t)/,

/iˈlɛk(t)/

Forms: Also Middle English elekte, eleckte, Middle English–1500s electe.

Etymology: < Latin ēlectus, past participle of ēligĕre to pick out, choose.

A. adj.

1. Picked out, chosen; also, chosen for excellence or by preference; select, choice. Also absol. a person or persons chosen.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [adjective] > selecting > selected

elect?a1400

pickedc1450

sorted1547

elected1549

select1565

selected1590

exempt?1611

delibated1656

singled1870

?a1400 Chester Pl. I. (1843) 212 Man..which is his owne eleckte.

1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) Introd. 3 A Booke of secrets given by God; To men Elect, a Beaten-Trod.

1520 Chron. Eng. i. f. 8/1 Saul..was a good man and elect of God.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 106 To be prestys..such only schold be admyttyd as have electe wyttys.

1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. ii. f. 48^v Take Iris electe, what quantitie you will.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xl. 537 Hee..shipped a thousand elect and choise souldiours..in gallies.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iv. 58 You haue heere Lady..the elect o' th' Land, who are assembled To pleade your Cause.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 214 The Race elect..advance Through the wilde Desert.

1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 10 This country..the land elect of liberty.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 2nd Ser. 310 He saw..that small procession of the elder poets to which only elect centuries can add another laurelled head.

1876 G. Bradford in N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 4 The executive, the elect of the whole state, has..no..medium of communication with his constituents.

a. spec. in Theology. Chosen by God, esp. for salvation or eternal life. Opposed to reprobate. Often absol. with plural sense, the elect.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective] > saved

safec1300

chosen1382

saveda1400

ransomedc1425

redempt?a1430

pre-electc1475

elect1526

redeemed1538

elected1548

redempted1623

Israelistic1684

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Biiii His owne elect and chosen chyldren.

1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale 41 The electe shal be there with their bodyes.

1582 Bible (Rheims) Rom. viii. 33 Who shal accuse against the elect of God?

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iv. 56 The elect Angels are without possibilitie of falling.

1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 83 It makes..the Elect and Reprobate, all alike.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 136 In the blessed Spirits elect Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 105 I mean the Sect of those Elect, That's loath to live by Merit.

a1763 J. Byrom Predestination, etc. (R.) While others..Are mercy's vessels, precious and elect.

1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 333/2 All the elect are effectually called at some point of time in life.

b. allusively. (Cf. Matthew xxiv. 24.)

ΚΠ

1885 J. J. Manley in Brit. Almanac Compan. 29 The street was a miracle in lath and plaster, which might almost deceive the very elect.

3. Chosen to an office or dignity. Now usually, Chosen, elected, but not installed in office (in this sense almost always following the noun).bride-elect, bridegroom-elect: see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [adjective] > elected

elected1549

elect1643

society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > appointed by nomination > but not installed

designed1581

designate1646

elect1726

designated1868

1643 W. Prynne Opening Great Seale 21 And that the Warden of Yarmouth so elect and sworne, shall, etc.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 128 The Bishop elect takes the Oaths of Supremacy.

1742 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 3) I. v. 393 Sextius was one of the Tribunes elect.

1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) I. (at cited word) A lord mayor is elect, before his predecessor's mayoralty is expired.

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. xi. 221 The elect bishop of Cambray was taken prisoner.

1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. vi. 172 My captain elect.

B. n.²

†1. One ‘chosen’ by God, esp. one chosen for eternal salvation; one of ‘the elect’ (cf. A. 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun] > person

Israelitec1384

chooselinga1400

predestinate1529

elect1532

Zionite1596

comprehensor1651

sanctificationist1868

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 525/2 Yet are there also in thys churche of electes, manye that neuer came to the fayth.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xlij^v A fore warnynge to hys electes.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vii. ix. 141 Saule..was an elect.

1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 20 It is probable that every elect hath his proper and peculiar Angell.

†2. One that has been chosen for an office or function; often spec. = bishop-elect n. at bishop n. Compounds 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [noun]

electionc1270

lectiona1300

electc1425

electing1611

society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > nomination to office > fact of being nominated > one who is nominated

elite?a1400

electc1425

electee1593

nominate1599

nominee1688

nomination1833

presentee1838

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 121 Comfermyt he wes Elect of Legis Ðat Bischoprike in þe Impire is.

1490–1 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 197 Item for a compositioun maid with Master Johne Guthre, elect of Ross, for the anna of the temporalite.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 133 Afterwarde he [sc. the Pope] refuseth bothe the electes, and preferreth Stephan Langton.

1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation vi. 98 Parker and the other four Elects..did offer to give unto her yearly a thousand marks.

†3. = electo n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > mutiny > [noun] > mutineer > leader chosen by mutineers

electo1609

electa1781

a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) ii. 93 Having chosen an elect, or leader.

4. In the Royal College of Physicians: One of the eight officers (abolished in 1860) who had formerly the function of granting licences, and the right of electing the President of the College from their own number.

ΚΠ

1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 5 §3 That the sixe persons beforesaid..chusing to them two moe..be called and cleaped Elects.

1697 View Penal Laws 8 Apothecaries faulty Wares, to be destroyed by the President and Elects of the Colledge of Physicians in London.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 133/2 The constituted officers then of this corporation are the eight elects.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

electv.

Brit.

/ᵻˈlɛkt/, U.S.

/əˈlɛk(t)/,

/iˈlɛk(t)/

Forms: Also 1500s electe. Scottish eleck. past tense and participle elected, 1500s elect(e.

Etymology: < ēlect- participial stem of ēligĕre (see elect adj.).

†1. transitive. To pick out, choose (usually, for a particular purpose or function). Also absol. Obsolete in general sense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose

markOE

to choose out1297

out-trya1325

cullc1330

welec1330

try1340

walea1350

coil1399

drawa1400

to mark outa1450

electa1513

sorta1535

prick1536

exempta1538

select1567

sort1597

to gather out1611

single1629

delibate1660

to cut out1667

outlooka1687

draught1714

draft1724

to tell off1727

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. viii. sig. o.iii^v A Noble gentilman..Elected a spouses at his owne deuice.

1557 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Chron. Warre agaynst Jugurth (Paynell) 28 b He had elect and assembled such compani as him thought competent for an army.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxiv. sig. Kiv ^v Hauing therefore elected a loftie seate.

1607 S. Rowlands Diogines Lanthorne 28 A heedefull care wee ought to haue, When we doe frends elect.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 4 Take your oath, That you elect no other King but him.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. i. 18 We haue with speciall soule Elected him our absence to supply.

1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum ii. 6 Elect your hair not from lean, poor or diseas'd Jades.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxv. 484 The magnetic needle elects its position.

a. To make deliberate choice of (a course of action, an opinion, etc.) in preference to an alternative. In legal use often absol.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > choose one of two alternatives

elect1509

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure viii. i Comyn wytte doothe full well electe What it shoulde take, and what it shall abjecte.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 59 It can suspend its own acting, either of electing or rejecting.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 26 He must therefore elect.

1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 334/1 They are seldom called to adjudicate upon it, except where the party has already elected.

1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 144 He elected goodness as the clue to which the soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. i. §25 The Motives which we determinately elect as our guiding principles of action.

b. with infinitive as obj. (Now common, but formerly chiefly in legal use).

ΚΠ

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 45 If there bee an overplus of goods..then ought he..to determine what goods hee doth elect to haue in value.

1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 182 I would not have Christians..elect to read God's word, rather in any book than his own.

1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 905 The assured may elect to abandon to the underwriter all right to such part of the property as may be saved.

1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 65 The daughter..was a lunatic, and therefore incompetent to elect to take the estate as land or money.

1868 A. Helps Realmah II. xvi. 256 She was secretly delighted that the jester had elected to live with her.

3. To choose (a person) by vote for appointment to an office or position of any kind. Used in three different constructions: to elect (a person) to (an office, etc.); to elect (an officer, etc.); and with complement, as ‘they elected him their chief’. Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > choose for office [verb (transitive)]

elite?1440

electa1513

voice1594

vote1643

scratch1841

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccii. f. cxiii^v Gerbres..was Electe Pope of Rome.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xix. sig. g.v Sexburge was electe To be abbesse.

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 228 If you will elect by my aduise, Crowne him and say, Long liue our Emperour.

1743 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) II. xvii. 94 They resolved to elect an Inter-Rex.

1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. ix. 247 They elected for their king Don Ferdinand de Valor.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 71 You wha was..by the brutes themsels elekit, To be their guide.

1867 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) III. i. 32 Few of the Scotch towns ventured to elect their chief magistrate from among their own people.

4. Theology. Of God: To choose (certain of His creatures) in preference to others, as the recipients of temporal or spiritual blessings; esp. to choose as the objects of eternal salvation. Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > save, redeem [verb (transitive)]

aleseOE

abyeOE

buyc1175

washc1175

winc1220

salvea1225

savec1225

forbuyc1315

ransomc1350

signc1350

again-buya1382

forechoosea1400

gain-buy1435

redeemc1438

pre-elect1561

sa'1604

electa1617

unsina1631

a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 42 Antecedency of faith before the act of electing.

1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 68 To induce the Lord to elect or predestinate.

1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 333/1 Particular persons, without any regard whatever to their merits or demerits, are elected, or rejected for ever.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1398

adj.n.²?a1400

v.1509

单词	elect
释义	† electn.¹ Etymology: ? < elect v.; or ? < Latin ēlectus , < ēligĕre ; see elect v. Obsolete. = election n. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > [noun] curec1000 custOE chirec1175 choosingc1200 choice1297 walea1352 dilection1388 election1393 elect1398 choose1430 option1549 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. xix. 44 By electes and choys [L. electione] of his owne free aduysement he..wolde be rebell agaynst god. c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 141 Schire Henry..Wald þis Elect had beene undone Sua þat his son mycht be Promovit to þat Dignite. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). electadj.n.² Brit. /ᵻˈlɛkt/, U.S. /əˈlɛk(t)/, /iˈlɛk(t)/ Forms: Also Middle English elekte, eleckte, Middle English–1500s electe. Etymology: < Latin ēlectus, past participle of ēligĕre to pick out, choose. A. adj. 1. Picked out, chosen; also, chosen for excellence or by preference; select, choice. Also absol. a person or persons chosen. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [adjective] > selecting > selected elect?a1400 pickedc1450 sorted1547 elected1549 select1565 selected1590 exempt?1611 delibated1656 singled1870 ?a1400 Chester Pl. I. (1843) 212 Man..which is his owne eleckte. 1477 T. Norton Ordinall of Alchimy in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) Introd. 3 A Booke of secrets given by God; To men Elect, a Beaten-Trod. 1520 Chron. Eng. i. f. 8/1 Saul..was a good man and elect of God. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 106 To be prestys..such only schold be admyttyd as have electe wyttys. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount i. ii. f. 48^v Take Iris electe, what quantitie you will. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxiv. xl. 537 Hee..shipped a thousand elect and choise souldiours..in gallies. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iv. 58 You haue heere Lady..the elect o' th' Land, who are assembled To pleade your Cause. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 214 The Race elect..advance Through the wilde Desert. View more context for this quotation 1863 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation 10 This country..the land elect of liberty. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 2nd Ser. 310 He saw..that small procession of the elder poets to which only elect centuries can add another laurelled head. 1876 G. Bradford in N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 4 The executive, the elect of the whole state, has..no..medium of communication with his constituents. 2. a. spec. in Theology. Chosen by God, esp. for salvation or eternal life. Opposed to reprobate. Often absol. with plural sense, the elect. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective] > saved safec1300 chosen1382 saveda1400 ransomedc1425 redempt?a1430 pre-electc1475 elect1526 redeemed1538 elected1548 redempted1623 Israelistic1684 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Biiii His owne elect and chosen chyldren. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale 41 The electe shal be there with their bodyes. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Rom. viii. 33 Who shal accuse against the elect of God? 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iv. 56 The elect Angels are without possibilitie of falling. 1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 83 It makes..the Elect and Reprobate, all alike. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 136 In the blessed Spirits elect Sense of new joy ineffable diffus'd. View more context for this quotation 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 105 I mean the Sect of those Elect, That's loath to live by Merit. a1763 J. Byrom Predestination, etc. (R.) While others..Are mercy's vessels, precious and elect. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 333/2 All the elect are effectually called at some point of time in life. b. allusively. (Cf. Matthew xxiv. 24.) ΚΠ 1885 J. J. Manley in Brit. Almanac Compan. 29 The street was a miracle in lath and plaster, which might almost deceive the very elect. 3. Chosen to an office or dignity. Now usually, Chosen, elected, but not installed in office (in this sense almost always following the noun).bride-elect, bridegroom-elect: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [adjective] > elected elected1549 elect1643 society > authority > office > appointment to office > [adjective] > appointed by nomination > but not installed designed1581 designate1646 elect1726 designated1868 1643 W. Prynne Opening Great Seale 21 And that the Warden of Yarmouth so elect and sworne, shall, etc. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 128 The Bishop elect takes the Oaths of Supremacy. 1742 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 3) I. v. 393 Sextius was one of the Tribunes elect. 1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) I. (at cited word) A lord mayor is elect, before his predecessor's mayoralty is expired. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. I. xi. 221 The elect bishop of Cambray was taken prisoner. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. vi. 172 My captain elect. B. n.² †1. One ‘chosen’ by God, esp. one chosen for eternal salvation; one of ‘the elect’ (cf. A. 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [noun] > person Israelitec1384 chooselinga1400 predestinate1529 elect1532 Zionite1596 comprehensor1651 sanctificationist1868 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 525/2 Yet are there also in thys churche of electes, manye that neuer came to the fayth. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xlij^v A fore warnynge to hys electes. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft vii. ix. 141 Saule..was an elect. 1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 20 It is probable that every elect hath his proper and peculiar Angell. †2. One that has been chosen for an office or function; often spec. = bishop-elect n. at bishop n. Compounds 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [noun] electionc1270 lectiona1300 electc1425 electing1611 society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > nomination to office > fact of being nominated > one who is nominated elite?a1400 electc1425 electee1593 nominate1599 nominee1688 nomination1833 presentee1838 c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 121 Comfermyt he wes Elect of Legis Ðat Bischoprike in þe Impire is. 1490–1 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 197 Item for a compositioun maid with Master Johne Guthre, elect of Ross, for the anna of the temporalite. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 133 Afterwarde he [sc. the Pope] refuseth bothe the electes, and preferreth Stephan Langton. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation vi. 98 Parker and the other four Elects..did offer to give unto her yearly a thousand marks. †3. = electo n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > mutiny > [noun] > mutineer > leader chosen by mutineers electo1609 electa1781 a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) ii. 93 Having chosen an elect, or leader. 4. In the Royal College of Physicians: One of the eight officers (abolished in 1860) who had formerly the function of granting licences, and the right of electing the President of the College from their own number. ΚΠ 1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 5 §3 That the sixe persons beforesaid..chusing to them two moe..be called and cleaped Elects. 1697 View Penal Laws 8 Apothecaries faulty Wares, to be destroyed by the President and Elects of the Colledge of Physicians in London. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 133/2 The constituted officers then of this corporation are the eight elects. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). electv. Brit. /ᵻˈlɛkt/, U.S. /əˈlɛk(t)/, /iˈlɛk(t)/ Forms: Also 1500s electe. Scottish eleck. past tense and participle elected, 1500s elect(e. Etymology: < ēlect- participial stem of ēligĕre (see elect adj.). †1. transitive. To pick out, choose (usually, for a particular purpose or function). Also absol. Obsolete in general sense. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose markOE to choose out1297 out-trya1325 cullc1330 welec1330 try1340 walea1350 coil1399 drawa1400 to mark outa1450 electa1513 sorta1535 prick1536 exempta1538 select1567 sort1597 to gather out1611 single1629 delibate1660 to cut out1667 outlooka1687 draught1714 draft1724 to tell off1727 a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. viii. sig. o.iii^v A Noble gentilman..Elected a spouses at his owne deuice. 1557 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Chron. Warre agaynst Jugurth (Paynell) 28 b He had elect and assembled such compani as him thought competent for an army. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxiv. sig. Kiv ^v Hauing therefore elected a loftie seate. 1607 S. Rowlands Diogines Lanthorne 28 A heedefull care wee ought to haue, When we doe frends elect. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. i. 4 Take your oath, That you elect no other King but him. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. i. 18 We haue with speciall soule Elected him our absence to supply. View more context for this quotation 1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum ii. 6 Elect your hair not from lean, poor or diseas'd Jades. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxv. 484 The magnetic needle elects its position. 2. a. To make deliberate choice of (a course of action, an opinion, etc.) in preference to an alternative. In legal use often absol. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > choose one of two alternatives elect1509 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure viii. i Comyn wytte doothe full well electe What it shoulde take, and what it shall abjecte. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 59 It can suspend its own acting, either of electing or rejecting. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 26 He must therefore elect. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 334/1 They are seldom called to adjudicate upon it, except where the party has already elected. 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 144 He elected goodness as the clue to which the soul must cling in all this labyrinth of nature. 1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. i. i. §25 The Motives which we determinately elect as our guiding principles of action. b. with infinitive as obj. (Now common, but formerly chiefly in legal use). ΚΠ a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 45 If there bee an overplus of goods..then ought he..to determine what goods hee doth elect to haue in value. 1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 182 I would not have Christians..elect to read God's word, rather in any book than his own. 1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 905 The assured may elect to abandon to the underwriter all right to such part of the property as may be saved. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 65 The daughter..was a lunatic, and therefore incompetent to elect to take the estate as land or money. 1868 A. Helps Realmah II. xvi. 256 She was secretly delighted that the jester had elected to live with her. 3. To choose (a person) by vote for appointment to an office or position of any kind. Used in three different constructions: to elect (a person) to (an office, etc.); to elect (an officer, etc.); and with complement, as ‘they elected him their chief’. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > choose for office [verb (transitive)] elite?1440 electa1513 voice1594 vote1643 scratch1841 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccii. f. cxiii^v Gerbres..was Electe Pope of Rome. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xix. sig. g.v Sexburge was electe To be abbesse. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 228 If you will elect by my aduise, Crowne him and say, Long liue our Emperour. View more context for this quotation 1743 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. (ed. 3) II. xvii. 94 They resolved to elect an Inter-Rex. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II I. ix. 247 They elected for their king Don Ferdinand de Valor. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 71 You wha was..by the brutes themsels elekit, To be their guide. 1867 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1873) III. i. 32 Few of the Scotch towns ventured to elect their chief magistrate from among their own people. 4. Theology. Of God: To choose (certain of His creatures) in preference to others, as the recipients of temporal or spiritual blessings; esp. to choose as the objects of eternal salvation. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > save, redeem [verb (transitive)] aleseOE abyeOE buyc1175 washc1175 winc1220 salvea1225 savec1225 forbuyc1315 ransomc1350 signc1350 again-buya1382 forechoosea1400 gain-buy1435 redeemc1438 pre-elect1561 sa'1604 electa1617 unsina1631 a1617 P. Baynes Comm. Ephes. (1658) 42 Antecedency of faith before the act of electing. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 68 To induce the Lord to elect or predestinate. 1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 333/1 Particular persons, without any regard whatever to their merits or demerits, are elected, or rejected for ever. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1398adj.n.²?a1400v.1509
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