Word Meanings - ELECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life. "The elect angels." 1 Tim. v. 21. 3. Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect. (more info) 1. Chosen; taken by

Additional info about word: ELECT

Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life. "The elect angels." 1 Tim. v. 21. 3. Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect. (more info) 1. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more. "Colors quaint elect." Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ELECT)

• Adopt
• Assume
• select
• affiliate
• take
• elect
• arrogate
• choose
• endorse
• avow
• appropriate
• Choose
• Select
• prefer
• adopt
• cull
• pick out
• Prefer
• fancy
• promote
• advance
• further
• Select Cull
• pick choose
• segregate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ELECT)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to ELECT)

• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• PREFERMENT
  1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
• ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
  Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• ELECTRONIC
  Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
  One versed in electro-biology.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• ELECTROLOGY
  That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ELECTROTYPE
  A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively. Note: The face of an electrotype consists of a shell of copper, silver, or the like, produced by the action
• ELECTRO-GILDING
  The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
• ELECTRO-POLAR
  Possessing electrical polarity; positively electrified at one end, or on one surface, and negatively at the other; -- said of a conductor.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.