单词 | self-electing |
释义 | self-electingadj. Of, relating to, or practising self-election; spec. (of a body) that elects its own members. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [adjective] > self-electing self-electing1631 self-elective1787 1631 R. Byfield Doctr. Sabbath Vindicated 67 The servant conferreth will, but thus and thus; as a conditionall will, a wil obeying, not selfe-electing, a will to the work, not to the sin. 1792 European Mag. & London Rev. May 377/2 The remedy..was to abolish the self-electing power of the magistrates. 1817 Morning Chron. 30 Oct. One of the main causes of the present financial embarrassments of that City has originated in the close, exclusive, and self-electing system of the Borough. 1855 W. Bagehot in National Rev. Oct. 271 In the towns, the franchise belonged to a close and self-electing corporation. 1922 Economist 2 Dec. 1039/1 The Commissioners become a kind of self-electing vestry, which degenerated early in the nineteenth century into a small junta of estate agents and builders. 1980 D. Francis Reflex vii. 76 That they [sc. the Jockey Club] were also self-electing meant in practice that the members were almost all..upper-class. 2000 Daily Tel. 30 May 6/7 Finals clubs, all male, self-electing bodies which are no longer recognised by the university but which maintain impressive premises around Harvard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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