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Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.

A person or persons not elected, or chosen, to salvation.

Failure of election.

A substance that is not an electric; that which transmits electricity, as a metal.

Not electric; conducting electricity.

Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.

A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

Acting by the operation of both light and electricity; -- said of apparatus for producing pictures by electric light.

A cell (as one of two electrodes embedded in selenium) which by exposure to light generates an electric current.

Pert. to, or capable of developing, photo-electricity.

Electricity produced by light.

An electrometer registering by photography.

An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.

To elect beforehand.

Election beforehand.

To discourse publicly; to lecture. Spitting . . . was publicly prelected upon. De. Quincey. To prelect upon the military art. Bp. Horsley.

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.

A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon.

To select beforehand.

Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.