{ "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "\u026a\u02c8l\u025bkt\u026av" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (Southern England)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (Southern England)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (Southern England)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "elect + -ive" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.\nSynonym: electoral\nAntonyms: appointive, hereditary\n1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby,\nFor his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern\u2019d not without a Senate:\n1782, William Cowper, \u201cThe Progress of Error\u201d, in Poems,\u200e, London: J. Johnson, page 43:Man thus endued with an elective voice,Must be supplied with objects of his choice.\n1854, George Bancroft, chapter 35, in History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent,\u200e, volume 6, Boston: Little, Brown, page 185: they rested their hopes of redress on the independent use of their elective franchise;\n1860, Walt Whitman, \u201cProto-Leaf\u201d, in Leaves of Grass\u200e, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, page 21:See the populace, millions upon millions, handsome, tall, muscular, both sexes, clothed in easy and dignified clothes\u2015teaching, commanding, marrying, generating, equally electing and elective;\n1896, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, \u201cThe South African Question\u201d in Speeches and Writings of M. K. Gandhi, Madras: G.A. Natesan, 3rd edition, 1922, p.\u00a06,\n says that no natives of countries (not of European origin) which have not hitherto possessed elective representative institutions shall be placed on the voters roll" }, { "mean": "Open to choice; freely chosen.\nSynonyms: discretionary, optional, voluntary\nAntonyms: compulsory, mandatory, obligatory, required, involuntary\nMy insurance wouldn't pay for the operation because it was elective surgery.\n1654, Thomas Hobbes, Of Libertie and Necessitie\u200e, London: F. Eaglesfield, pages 12\u201313: his Lordship is deceived if he think any spontaneous action after once being checked in it, differs from an action voluntary and elective, for even the setting of a mans foot, in the posture for walking, and the action of ordinary eating was once deliberated of how and when it should be done, and though afterward it became easie & habitual so as to be done without fore-thought, yet that does not hinder but that the act is voluntary and proceedeth from election.\n1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume\u00a05, Book\u00a09, Chapter\u00a08, pp.\u00a0160-161,\n\u201cYou know not then,\u201d said Cecilia, in a faint voice, \u201cmy inability to comply?\u201d\n\u201cYour ability, or inability, I presume are elective?\u201d\n\u201cOh no!\u2014my power is lost!\u2014my fortune itself is gone!\u201d\n2001, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup\u200e, Toronto: Viking, page 23: are, after all, her elective siblings who have distanced themselves from the ways of the past, their families \n2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, chapter 38, in Americanah\u200e, New York: Knopf, page 346:\u201c That blog is a game that you don\u2019t really take seriously, it\u2019s like choosing an interesting elective evening class to complete your credits.\u201d\n2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, New York: Vintage, page 130:Now some adventuring imbecile had acquired an elective sickness and was paying its price." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.\nI still need to decide which electives to take along with my compulsory courses next semester." } ] }, { "name": "References", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "^ Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary, London: Peter Parker, 1677: \u201cElective, belonging or subject to Election.\u201d" } ] }, { "name": "Anagrams", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "cleveite\n\n\n\n\n -->\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=electiveoldid=75627409\"\n\t\tCategories: English terms suffixed with -iveEnglish 3-syllable wordsEnglish terms with IPA pronunciationEnglish terms with audio linksRhymes:English/\u025bkt\u026avRhymes:English/\u025bkt\u026av/3 syllablesEnglish lemmasEnglish adjectivesEnglish terms with quotationsEnglish terms with usage examplesEnglish nounsEnglish countable nounsHidden categories: Quotation templates to be cleanedTranslation table header lacks gloss\n\t\n\n\n\n\tNavigation menu\n\t\n\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tPersonal tools\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tNot logged inTalkContributionsCreate accountLog in\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tNamespaces\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEntryDiscussion\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tEnglish\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\tViews\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tReadEditHistory\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\tMore\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\tSearch\n\t\n\t\t
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