Eligibility

[Fr. eligibilité.] Quality or state of being eligible; worthine or fitne to be chosen; the state or quality of a thing which renders it preferable to another, or desirable. Eligible, (el'i-jib-l,) a. [Fr. éligible, from Lat. eligo, and lego , to choose.] Fit to be chosen; worthy of choice, preferable; suitable; proper; desirable. El'igiblene , n. Eligibility. El'igibly, adv . In a manner to be worthy of choice; suitably. Elihu. [Heb., He is my God Himself.] The youngest and wisest of the four friends of Job. Elijah, an eminent prophet of Israel, in the reigns of Ahab and Ahaziah. He was greatly persecuted by Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, but escaped all her machinations, and was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire, about 896 в. с. IMG:content-0026.png:[blocks in formation]