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elector|ɪˈlɛktə(r)|
Also 5–6 electour.
[a. L. ēlector chooser, f. ēligĕre to elect.]
1. a. gen. One who has the right to vote in election to any office or dignity. b. spec. In Great Britain and Ireland, one legally qualified to vote in the election of members of parliament; in U.S., a member of the Electoral College chosen by the several States to elect the President and Vice-President.
1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 409 Þe electors to go to a new elleccioun. 1474Caxton Chesse ii. ii. B iij b, For often tymes the electours and chosers can not ne wylle not accorde. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 54 The Electors are the Instruments by which the Elected King or Monarch receives his power. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 25 The nine who draw these golden balls chuse forty other electors, all of different families. 1789Constit. U.S. i. ii, The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. 1827Scott Surg. Dau. i, A score or two of quiet electors, who settle the business over a table. 1861May Const. Hist. I. 298 The representation of this capital city [Edinburgh]..was returned by thirty-three electors. 1874Bancroft Footpr. Time xliii. 374 An Elector..is one who has been appointed to choose or elect the President of the United States.
†2. Knights Electors: the four gentlemen appointed by the sheriff to serve as members of the jury, and to elect the remaining members, in the process of trial by ‘Grand Assize’.
1628Coke On Litt. 294 a, The foure Knights Electors of the grand Assise are not to be challenged.
3. One of the Princes of Germany formerly entitled to take part in the election of the Emperor.
1529Rastell Pastyme E iv. b, [The Emperor] dyd assocyate with hym Maximilyan his son by the consent of the electours. 1591L. Lloyd Triplicitie E iii. b, The seuen Electors hattes of Germany. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 73 Conradus, Archbishop of Mogunsia, another of the Electors. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. (1702) I. 14 The Prince Electour, who had..incurr'd the Ban of the Empire. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 216 The elector of Saxony. 1872Freeman Gen. Sketch xvi. §4 (1874) 333 A new electorate of Hessen-Cassel was made, whose Elector, as it turned out, never had any one to elect. |