Elect(a.) Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
Elect(a.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.
Elect(a.) Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.
Elect(n.) One chosen or set apart.
Elect(n.) Those who are chosen for salvation.
Elect(v. t.) To pick out; to select; to choose.
Elect(v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.
Elect(v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.
Electant(n.) One who has the power of choosing; an elector.
Elected(imp. & p. p.) of Elect
Electer(n.) Amber. See Electrum.
Electer(n.) A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy.
Electic(a.) See Eclectic.
Electing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elect
Election(a.) The act of choosing; choice; selection.
Election(a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
Election(a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
Election(a.) Discriminating choice; discernment.
Election(a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the \"five points\" of Calvinism.
Election(a.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
Election(a.) Those who are elected.
Elective(a.) Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
Elective(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.
Elective(a.) Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.
Elective(n.) In an American college, an optional study or course of study.
Electively(adv.) In an elective manner; by choice.
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