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▪ I. pre-eˈlect, a. Now rare.
[ad. L. præēlect-us, pa. pple. of med.L. præēligĕre to choose before, prefer; or f. pre- A. 1, 5 + elect a.]
Chosen beforehand or before others; chosen in preference to others.
c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxxiii. 123 Ha, noble rose, pre-elect & chosen byfore all other flouris that ben about the. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge ii. 225 This gracious virgin and preelect abbasse. 1611Florio, Preeletto, preelect, fore-chosen. 1858E. Caswall Poems 34 Then with all perfections deck'd As this mother pre-elect. 1870Rossetti Poems (1881) 261 This is that blessed Mary pre-elect God's virgin.
▪ II. pre-elect, v.|priːɪˈlɛkt|
[pre- A. 1.]
a. trans. To elect or choose beforehand.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 926/1 In the diuine prescience of God, whiche had chosen and preelected her before the worldes to be the mother of the Lord. 1611Cotgr., Préeslu, preelected, fore-chosen. 1706Phillips, Pre-elected, elected, or chosen before-hand. 1850Neale Med. Hymns (1867) 153 Ere the world was, pre-elected.
b. To elect to an office by anticipation. Used spec. of the choice of heads of colleges and of certain classes of fellows in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
1830J. H. Monk Life R. Bentley (1833) II. 45 An appeal was also presented to the Vice-Chancellor..against the Master, who had pre-elected his son, William Bradford, to a fellowship in a College Meeting, at which only four of the twelve Fellows were present. Ibid. 254 Four persons, commonly deemed his inferiors in merit, were successful; two of them being pre-elected for the following year. 1977Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 8/2 At Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, Miss A. P. Dowling, of Girton, has been pre-elected into a junior research fellowship. 1978Ibid. 20 Jan. 14/4 At Christ's College, Prof. J. H. Plumb, Fellow of the College and Emeritus Professor of Modern English History, has been pre-elected to Mastership with effect from July 11, 1978. |