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1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 280 They assembled a good company of them together, and went vp to the Capitoll, and prayed the Tribunes they would staye to take the voyces of the people.

1593 R. Bancroft Suruay Holy Discipline xxvii. 330 A moderator, chosen out of those Ministers, for one meeting onlie,..to collect the voices and to moderat that action.

1659 W. Montagu Shepheard's Paradise ii. 45 Collect the voyces upon the hearing of the pretention.

1734 J. Stacie tr. Abbé de Parthenay Hist. Poland I. i. 98 The Primate proclaimed the Prince of Conti before the Voices were collected.

1837 T. Keightley Secret Societies Middle Ages 254 The great-prior took the voices of those present on the merits of the absent knights; and he who had the most in his favour was declared the electing-prior.

1898 Times 12 Feb. 9/1 The speaker said he had already collected the voices, and it was now too late for the hon. member to intervene.

a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 203 On these occasions he hasn't ‘taken the voices’. He has added up the opinions and listed them on a piece of paper.

2004 L. Prakke & C. Kortmann Constit. Law 15 EU Member States 897 It is now up to the Speaker ‘to collect the voices’, in other words to establish who has won the vote.