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Those who are elected. [Obs.] The election hath obtained it. Rom. xi. 7. To contest an election. See under Contest. -- To make one's election, to choose. He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths. Fitzed. Hall.

by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conductin…

The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson.

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South. Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor.

To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance. Those tears eternal that embalm the dead. Pope.

ipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity. "Thetis . . . emerging from the deep." Dryden. Those who have emerged from very low, some from the lowest, classes of society. Burke.

Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. [Obs.] "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.

To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. [Obs.] Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.

; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan. Among the Greek physicians, those who founded their practice on experience called themselves empirics. Krauth-Fleming. Swallow down opinions as silly people do empirics' pills. Locke.

A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en- or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em- before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in en…

Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part.

To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain. Those gracious acts . . . may be Englished more properly, acts of fear and dissimulation. Milton. Caxton does not care to alter the French forms and words in the book which he was Englishing. T. L. K. Oliphant.

To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.

The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.

equal quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal." Those who were once his equals envy and defame him. Addison.

; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body. Health consists in the equilibrium between those two powers. Arbuthnot.

A group of chætopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [Written also Errantes.]

versight; also, transgression. [Obs.] I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes. Burton.

Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.