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elector

i'lektә7 senses · 306 ms
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noun/ɪˈlɛktə//ɪˈlɛktɚ//iˈlɛktɚ/
  1. 1

    A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.

    • In the courſe of not many years muſt the electours of one place grapple in the waves for their town, and at preſent a ſeptennial conſequence is given to a heap of ruins.
    • But in France is practice of bribing electors is almost unknown, whilst it is notoriously and publicly carried on in England.
  2. 2

    A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.; A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.CommonwealthUK

    • I Think this Letter, which was ſent to me by my Electors, worth printing, becauſe as it has convinced me, it may convince others.
  3. 3

    A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.; A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.

    • The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows / Each State
    • The electors were originally designed to be the agents of a State, armed with plenary authority to cast its vote for President and Vice-President in such manner as the agents themselves or a majority of them might will, all danger of abuse
  4. 4

    A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.; Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).alt-ofhistorical

    • Whan the electours profered to make him [Ottokar II of Bohemia] emperour, he refuſed it, ſaiyng, that it was a greatter thynge to be kynge of Boheme, than emperour of Rome.
    • In one of the conflicts, the [Holy Roman] emperor himſelf was put to flight, and very near being made priſoner by the elector of Saxony.
noun
  1. 1

    A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.historical

    • In one of the conflicts, the [Holy Roman] emperor himſelf was put to flight, and very near being made priſoner by the elector of Saxony.

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