1. (n.) The act of choosing; choice; selection.

2. (n.) 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.

3. (a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.

4. (a.) Discriminating choice; discernment.

5. (a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the five points of Calvinism.

6. (n.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.

7. (a.) Those who are elected.

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