Electant (n.) One who has the power of choosing; an elector.
Electary (n.) See Electuary.
Electic (a.) See Eclectic.
Electicism (n.) See Eclecticism.
Election (a.) The act of choosing; choice; selection.
Election (a.) The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
Election (a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
Election (a.) Discriminating choice; discernment.
Election (a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
Election (a.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
Election (a.) Those who are elected.
Electionered (imp. & p. p.) of Electioneer
Electioneering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Electioneer
Electioneer (v. i.) To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate.
Electioneerer (n.) One who electioneers.
Elective (a.) Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.
Elective (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.
Elective (a.) Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.
Elective (n.) In an American college, an optional study or course of study.
Electively (adv.) In an elective manner; by choice.
Elector (n.) One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor of a candidate for office.
Elector (n.) Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.
Elector (n.) In the old German empire, one of the princes entitled to choose the emperor.
Elector (n.) One of the persons chosen, by vote of the people in the United States, to elect the President and Vice President.
Elector (a.) Pertaining to an election or to electors.
Electorality (n.) The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate.
Electorate (n.) The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire.
Electorate (n.) The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them.
Electoress (n.) An electress.
Electorial (a.) Electoral.
Electorship (n.) The office or status of an elector.
Electre (n.) Alt. of Electer
Electer (n.) Amber. See Electrum.
Electer (n.) A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy.
Electrepeter (n.) An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
Electress (n.) The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire.
Electric (a.) Alt. of Electrical
Electrical (a.) Pertaining to electricity; consisting of, containing, derived from, or produced by, electricity; as, electric power or virtue; an electric jar; electric effects; an electric spark.
Electrical (a.) Capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine or substance.
Electrical (a.) Electrifying; thrilling; magnetic.
Electric (n.) A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
Electrically (adv.) In the manner of electricity, or by means of it; thrillingly.
Electricalness (a.) The state or quality of being electrical.
Electrician (n.) An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
Electricities (pl. ) of Electricity
Electricity (n.) A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause.
Electricity (n.) The science which unfolds the phenomena and laws of electricity; electrical science.
Electricity (n.) Fig.: Electrifying energy or characteristic.
Electrifiable (a.) Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it.
Electrification (n.) The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
Electrified (imp. & p. p.) of Electrify
Electrifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Electrify
Electrify (v. t.) To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.
Electrify (v. t.) To cause electricity to pass through; to affect by electricity; to give an electric shock to; as, to electrify a limb, or the body.
Electrify (v. t.) To excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience.
Electrify (v. i.) To become electric.
Electrine (a.) Belonging to, or made of, amber.
Electrine (a.) Made of electrum, an alloy used by the ancients.
Electrition (n.) The recognition by an animal body of the electrical condition of external objects.
Electrization (n.) The act of electrizing; electrification.
Electrized (imp. & p. p.) of Electrize
Electrizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Electrize
Electrize (v. t.) To electricity.
Electrizer (n.) One who, or that which, electrizes.
Electro- () A prefix or combining form signifying pertaining to electricity, produced by electricity, producing or employing electricity, etc.; as, electro-negative; electro-dynamic; electro-magnet.
Electro (n.) An electrotype.
Electro-ballistic (a.) Pertaining to electro-ballistics.
Electro-ballistics (n.) The art or science of measuring the force or velocity of projectiles by means of electricity.
Electro-biologist (n.) One versed in electro-biology.
Electro-biology (n.) That branch of biology which treats of the electrical phenomena of living organisms.
Electro-biology (n.) That phase of mesmerism or animal magnetism, the phenomena of which are supposed to be produced by a form of electricity.
Electro-bioscopy (n.) A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction.
Electro-capillarity (n.) The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
Electro-capillary (a.) Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.
Electro-chemical (a.) Of or pertaining to electro-chemistry.
Electro-chemistry (n.) That branch of science which treats of the relation of electricity to chemical changes.
Electro-chronograph (n.) An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
Electro-chronographic (a.) Belonging to the electro-chronograph, or recorded by the aid of it.
Electrocute (v. t.) To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n. [Recent; Newspaper words]
Electrode (n.) The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.
Electro-dynamic (a.) Alt. of Electro-dynamical
Electro-dynamical (a.) Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
Electro-dynamics (n.) The phenomena of electricity in motion.
Electro-dynamics (n.) The branch of science which treats of the properties of electric currents; dynamical electricity.
Electro-dynamometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents.
Electro-engraving (n.) The art or process of engraving by means of electricity.
Electro-etching (n.) A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.
Electrogenesis (n.) Same as Electrogeny.
Electrogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to electrogenesis; as, an electrogenic condition.
Electrogeny (n.) A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.
Electro-gilding (n.) The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity.
Electro-gilt (a.) Gilded by means of voltaic electricity.
Electrograph (n.) A mark, record, or tracing, made by the action of electricity.
Electro-kinetic (a.) Of or pertaining to electro-kinetics.
Electro-kinetics (n.) That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion.
Electrolier (n.) A branching frame, often of ornamental design, to support electric illuminating lamps.
Electrology (n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
Electrolysis (n.) The act or process of chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.
Electrolyte (n.) A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.
Electrolytic (a.) Alt. of Electrolytical