adlectv.
/adˈlɛkt/, U.S. /ædˈlɛk(t)/ Roman History.
transitive. To select or promote (a person) by adlection. Frequently with to, into. Cf. adlection n.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > appoint as Roman senator
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1914 Classical Q. Oct. 285 The senators were adlected from Italy and the provinces.
1949 Oxf. Classical Dict. 6/2 Men were adlected..to the rank of ex-quaestors.
1977 F. Millar Emperor in Rom. World 295 It became established practice for equites to be adlected into the senate at various grades, and for senators to be adlected to higher grades or into the patriciate.
2002 Internat. Jrnl. Classical Trad. 9 262 During the Principate, large numbers of provincials—usually from wealthy and educated local elites—also had been adlected into the senatorial class.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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