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A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest. The European powers strove to . . . accommodate their differences at the congress of Vienna. Alison.…

e is periodically divided (according to population), each of which is entitled to elect a Representative to the Congress of the United States.

A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of the House of Representatives.

A body of constituents, as the body of citizens or voters in a representative district.

e power of electing or appointing. A question of right arises between the constituent and representative body. Junius.

A meeting or an assembly of persons, esp. of delegates or representatives, to accomplish some specific object, -- civil, social, political, or ecclesiastical. He set himself to the making of good laws in a grand convention of his nobles. Sir R. Baker. A convention of delegates from all the States, to meet in Philadelph…

An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.

The legislative assembly, composed of nobility, clergy, and representatives of cities, which in Spain and in Portugal answers, in some measure, to the Parliament of Great Britain.

y one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.

a system of representation and delegated authority periodically renewed; a constitutional representative government; a republic.

The act of deputing, or of appointing or commissioning a deputy or representative; office of a deputy or delegate; vicegerency. The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God. South.

owered to act for him, in his name or his behalf; a substitute in office; a lieutenant; a representative; a delegate; a vicegerent; as, the deputy of a prince, of a sheriff, of a township, etc. There was then [in the days of Jehoshaphat] no king in Edom; a deputy was king. 1 Kings xxii. 47. God's substitute, His deputy…

Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek . Andrews.

popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effected, as in the case of candidates for president or senator of the Unite…

icts or limited portions of territory; as, legislatures district States for the choice of representatives.

the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done often stand as a general substitute or representative verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal verb. "To live and die is all we have to do." Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries, the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without to) of the ve…

To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.

The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.

Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; white is emblematic of purity. -- Em`blem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.

community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.