单词 | nominating |
释义 | nominatingn. The action of nominating a person or persons; nomination. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > nomination to office namingc1300 nomination1430 designment1582 nominatinga1599 designation1605 nominature1864 a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 17 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The Iudges and chiefe Magistrates which have the choosing and nominating of those Iurors. 1650 in A. J. Warden Dundee Burgh Laws (1872) 103 The ballies..being conveined..for leiting, nominating, and electing of the deane of gild. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal II. ix. 77 Such a manner of nominating disappoints the end, as well as it destroys the essence of a parliament. 1788 A. Hamilton in Federalist Papers lxix. 238 If he really has the right of nominating, his authority is in this respect equal to that of the president. 1830 J. K. Paulding Politician in Chrons. City of Gotham 186 The members of the general committees; the nominating committees; and greatest of all, the gentlemen who give the impulse, and govern the course of the current by a certain mysterious influence. 1850 N. P. Willis Up-town Crisis in People I have Met ii. 266 He was accidentally appointed, by the whim of a nominating committee, one of the wardens of a poor-house. 1866 F. Kirkland Bk. Anecd. 54 An interview with the Cabinet chiefs, just after the Baltimore Republican Nominating Convention. 1881 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 44 165 The caucus or nominating convention offers a plausible solution..of a difficulty which the introduction of secret voting has..greatly increased. 1928 W. C. Williams Waitress in Coll. Poems I. 280 The Nominating Committee presents the following Resolutions. 1978 Jrnl. Politics 40 1029 One could not, at the beginning of the nominating season, have known..that John Kennedy would defeat the party regulars. 1991 Newsweek 25 Nov. 24/1 Labor could play a big role in a short nominating season. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nominatingadj.ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [adjective] > giving a name to nominating1597 denominating1614 denominative1614 1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. x. sig. Nv Shall wee call her wisedome by her name, Or new inuent a nominating stile? 1677 A. Marvell Let. 26 May in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 203 Some rather desiring that there might only be generall words and not nominating. 2. That nominates a person or persons. ΚΠ 1968 Sun (Baltimore) 5 July a14/7 His delegate count is within a pitch and a putt of the nominating majority. 1991 ABA Jrnl. Nov. 117/1 Nominating petitions for the vacancy election must be filed with the Board of Elections at Association Headquarters... The term for this seat will begin immediately following the election. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1599adj.1597 |
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