单词 | recanvass |
释义 | recanvassn. Chiefly U.S. An act of recanvassing people, votes, etc. Cf. canvass n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > scrutiny of votes scrutiny1728 canvass1778 recanvass1819 1819 Times 26 May 3/4 Sir W. D. Gordon..has been actively engaged in a re-canvass of the freemen here. 1870 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 29 Dec. 1/1 It will be seen that Mr Crawford gains considerably in the grand total, by a recanvass of the ballots. 1907 E. E. Sparks National Devel. xix. 349 A careful recanvass of the popular vote in New York gave Cleveland 563,154, and Blaine 562,005. 1941 D. T. Lynch Wild Seventies xliv. 426 This second law..commanded the governor to give them certificates of election pursuant to the recanvass. 2004 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 16 Nov. a8/6 Election workers discovered reporting errors during a routine recanvass of voting machines. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). recanvassv. transitive. To canvass again (in various senses of the verb). ΚΠ 1612 R. Parsons Discuss. Answere William Barlow i. ii. 73 I will to quit his fauour send him backe to the sayd M. Morton againe recanuased by me vpon this point in two seuerall Bookes of answere. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. xix. 397 But this useth ordinarly to be so provided in the Decreet of removing, and will be hardlie sustained thereafter, by recanvassing the defences competent in the removing. 1807 Monthly Rev. 53 446 We forbear to re-canvass their deserts. 1826 Times 13 July 2/4 After the last election, in 1820, the Lowther agents re-canvassed the county. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. II. iii. xxvi. 329 The twelve men..re-canvassing for their own mental satisfaction the fine points made by Mason. 1988 J. Ellroy Big Nowhere vii. 73 I spent all day yesterday and most of the evening recanvassing Central Avenue, and I couldn't find any other eyewitnesses. 2006 Newsday (Nexis) 26 Dec. [He] said neighbors hadn't reported hearing or seeing anything Sunday evening, but that they would recanvass the area since many are away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1819v.1612 |
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