Index of English words, starting with "el"

(1) - Elecampane (n.) A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant.
(2) - Elecampane (n.) A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic.

(1) - Elect (v. t.) To designate, choose, or select, as an object of mercy or favor.
(2) - Elect (v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor.
(3) - Elect (v. t.) To pick out; to select; to choose.
(4) - Elect (n.) Those who are chosen for salvation.
(5) - Elect (n.) One chosen or set apart.
(6) - Elect (a.) Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.
(7) - Elect (a.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life.
(8) - Elect (a.) Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

(1) - Electicism (n.) See Eclecticism.

(1) - Election (a.) Those who are elected.
(2) - Election (a.) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
(3) - Election (a.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
(4) - Election (a.) Discriminating choice; discernment.
(5) - Election (a.) Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
(6) - 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.
(7) - Election (a.) The act of choosing; choice; selection.