Word Meanings - BALLOTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Voting by ballot. Sir H. Wotton.

Related words: (words related to BALLOTATION)

• BALLOTER
  One who votes by ballot.
• VOTIVE
  Given by vow, or in fulfillment of a vow; consecrated by a vow; devoted; as, votive offerings; a votive tablet. "Votive incense." Keble. We reached a votive stone, that bears the name Of Aloys Reding. Wordsworth. Embellishments of flowers and votive
• VOTARESS
  A woman who is a votary. Shak.
• VOTIST
  One who makes a vow. Chapman.
• VOTRESS
  A votaress. Dryden.
• BALLOTATION
  Voting by ballot. Sir H. Wotton.
• VOTER
  One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, as, an independent voter.
• VOTING
  a. & n. from Vote, v. Voting paper, a form of ballot containing the names of more candidates than there are offices to be filled, the voter making a mark against the preferred names.
• BALLOTIN
  An officer who has charge of a ballot box. Harrington.
• BALLOTADE
  A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.
• VOTE
  1. An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer. Massinger. 2. A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard
• BALLOTAGE
  In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.
• BALLOT
  1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting. 2. The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets. The insufficiency of
• VOTARY
  Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted; promised. Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom. Bacon.
• VOTARIST
  A votary. Like a sad votarist in palmer's weed. Milton.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• SELF-DEVOTION
  The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
• DEVOTO
  A devotee. Dr. J. Scott.
• DEVOTE
  1. To appropriate by vow; to set apart or dedicate by a solemn act; to consecrate; also, to consign over; to doom; to evil; to devote one to destruction; the city was devoted to the flames. No devoted thing that a man shall devote unto the Lord
• DEVOTED
  Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout; as, a devoted admirer. -- De*vot"ed*ly, adv. -- De*vot"ed*ness, n.
• DEVOTIONAL
  Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
• AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
  A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed
• OVOTESTTIS
  An organ which produces both ova and spermatozoids; an hermaphrodite gland.
• DEVOTEMENT
  The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow. Bp. Hurd.
• OVERVOTE
  To outvote; to outnumber in votes given. Eikon Basilike.