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allots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates for an office, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together in nominated or elected.

To nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution. The patron of a church may present his clerk to a parsonage or vicarage; that is, may offer him to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted. Blackstone.

he principal which, drawing interest at a given rate, will amount to the given sum at the date on which this is to be paid; thus, interest being at 6%, the present value of $106 due one year hence is $100.

, a meeting of citizens at which the first steps are taken towards the nomination of candidates, etc. See Caucus. -- Primary pinna (Bot.), one of those portions of a compound leaf or frond which branch off directly from the main rhachis or stem, whether simple or compounded. -- Primary planets. (Astron.) See the Note…

irtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule. (b) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor. (c) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier…

ergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice. While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. Dryden.

Proboscidate.

To antedate. Fitzed. Hall.

The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates were nominated and the platform adopted. Among the chief articles in the platform are those demanding direct primaries, preferential primaries for presidential nominations, direct election of United States senators, women's…

An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.

To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.

The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean.

"The ticket or list of candidates at elections, presented to the people for their votes." [Rhode Island] Bartlett.

Vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown crystals.

Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent. [Obs.] " A puisne date to eternity." Sir M. Hale.

composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.

vert; -- said of a bird escaping from a hawk. (c) To offer one's self; to stand as a candidate for. Locke. -- To put off, to go away; to depart; esp., to leave land, as a ship; to move from the shore. -- To put on, to hasten motion; to drive vehemently. -- To put over (Naut.), to sail over or across. -- To put to s…

A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination.

Made of quickset. Dates and pomegranates on the quickset hedges. Walpole.

Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news. The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mu…