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Pertaining to an election or to electors. In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke. Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice Preside…

The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.

An electress. Bp. Burnet.

Electoral. Burke.

The office or status of an elector.

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

One who selects.

The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.

The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district. Ballot box, a box for receiving ballots.

Capable of being bribed. A more bribable class of electors. S. Edwards.

8), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.

times, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops. The college of the cardinals. Shak. Then they made colleges of sufferers; persons who, to secure their inheritance in the world to come, did cut off all their portion in this. Jer. Taylor.…

s represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative. The electors in the district of a representative in Congress, or in the legislature of a State, are termed his constituents. Abbot. To appeal from the representatives to the constituents. Macaulay.

egion; the populace; the public. Hence: (a) One's constituents. (b) The whole body of the electors of state; as, to dissolve Parliament and appeal to the country. All the country in a general voice Cried hate upon him. Shak.

of territory; a defined portion of a state, town, or city, etc., made for administrative, electoral, or other purposes; as, a congressional district, judicial district, land district, school district, etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitution of the…

One who has the power of choosing; an elector. [R.]

Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral. The independent use of their elective franchise. Bancroft.

The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire. Burke.