sortitionn.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas ix. 120 For so doth Tully define Sortition, that it is nothing els but hap-hazard.

1608 Bp. J. King Serm. St. Maries Oxf. 11 Some reigne by vsurpation,..some by acquisition,..some by sortition or augurie.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xvi. 5 Annot.) 81/2 The old way of sortition was by staves, or rods.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 74 No mode of election operating in the spirit of sortition or rotation. View more context for this quotation

1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece V. ii. xliv. 371 The principle of sortition or choice by lot was never applied..to all offices at Athens.

1886 Q. Rev. July 12 In a certain Arcadian state sortition superseded election.

1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 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).

1634 in 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) 127 Whether the advowsons of benefices..be not passed by balls or sortitions to private residentiaryes.

1828 W. Taylor Historic Surv. German Poetry I. 275 The scourging, the crowning with thorns, and the sortition of the garments.

1887 M. B. Betham-Edwards Next of Kin Wanted I. xiv. 190 The transfer of the property, by a distribution, sortition, or otherwise.

1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 90 The Lords People.., whether..termed..lots, in order to their respective Pastors, whose sortitions, and divisions they are, or as being Gods heritage.