Definition: The act of choosing; choice; selection.
Definition: 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.
Definition: Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
Definition: Discriminating choice; discernment.
Definition: Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects
of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
Definition: The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by
taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
Definition: Those who are elected.
