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sortition|sɔːˈtɪʃən|
[ad. L. sortītio, f. sortīri to cast or draw lots.]
1. The casting or drawing of lots; selection, choice, or determination by lot.
1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 120 For so doth Tully define Sortition, that it is nothing else but hap-hazard. 1608― Serm. 24 Mar. 11 Some reigne by vsurpation,..some by acquisition,..some by sortition or augurie. 1659Hammond On Ps. xvi. 5 The old way of sortition was by staves or rods. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 74 No mode of election operating in the spirit of sortition or rotation. 1849Grote Greece ii. xliv. V. 371 The principle of sortition or choice by lot was never applied..to all offices at Athens. 1886Q. Rev. July 12 In a certain Arcadian state sortition superseded election.
2. With a and pl. An act or instance of determining by lot.
1634Bp. Hall Contempl., N.T. iv. 273 The souldiers have..cast lots upon thy seamlesse coat (those poore spoiles cannot so much inrich them, as glorifie thee; whose Scriptures are fulfilled by their barbarous sortitions). 1634in 4th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 127 Whether the advowsons of benefices..be not passed by balls or sortitions to private residentiaryes. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry I. 275 The scourging, the crowning with thorns, and the sortition of the garments. 1887M. B. Betham-Edwards Next of Kin Wanted I. xiv. 190 The transfer of the property, by a distribution, sortition, or otherwise.
†3. An allotted share or portion. Obs.
1671[R. MacWard] True Nonconf. 90 The Lords People.., whether..termed..lots, in order to their respective Pastors, whose sortitions, and divisions they are, or as being Gods heritage. |