elecampane, all i camp ane, alecampane

[A corruption of Lat. Inula campana, the old name of the plant.] 1. Bot.: Inula helenium . A tall, stout, downy, composite plant with yellow flowers. It was formerly cultivated as an aromatic and tonic, and the root-stock is still candied. ( Sir Joseph Hooker .) 2. Pharm.: A medicine made from the plant described under No. 1. ĕ-lěct', v. t. & i. [ELECT, а.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language : 1. To pick or choose out of a number; to select. "This prince, in gratitude to the people, by whose consent he was chosen, elected a hundred senators out of the commoners."- Swift . 2. To select or choose out of a number for appointment to any office or employment; to designate any. office by voting. "Hee was also elected generall capitaine of the kinges armie."- Brende : Quintus Curtius , fo. 9. 3. To choose, to prefer; to determine in favor of. "They have been, by the means that they elected carried beyond the end that they designed."- Boyle . II. Theol .: Τo choose some persons to everlasting life. [ELECTION.] B. In trans.: To determine on any course of action: as, He elected to remain. For the difference between to elect and to choose , see CHOOSE. IMG:content-0825.png:[blocks in formation] election 2. Chosen or designated to an office, but not yet fully in po e ion of it. It follows the noun to which it refers. "Emperor elect and bishop elect are ancient and intel. ligible descriptions. They mark the man in the stage when his appointment to his office is complete and irrevocable, but when he is not yet put into full po e ion of it by his coronation or consecration."-London Times. II. Theol.: Chosen by God to everlasting life (B. II.1). B. As substantive: *I. Ord. Lang.: One chosen or selected. "Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect in whom my soul delight eth."- Isaiah xiii. 1. II. Technically : 1. Theol . ( pl .): Those chosen by God from before the foundation of the world to be brought into a state of grace, and ultimately to receive everlasting life. "A vicious liver, believing that Christ died for none but the elect , shall have attempts made upon him to re form and amend his life." -Hammond. 2. Med .: Officers of the College of Physicians. ( Eng . ) *ĕ-lěc-tant, s. [Lat. electans , pr. par. of electo , intens. of eligo to choose, to elect.] One who has the power or right of electing; an elector. "You cannot go on further to entitle him a free electant too."- Search : On Freewill, Foreknowl ., . (1763), p. 55. ĕ-lěc-tar-ỹ, s . [ELECTUARY.] ĕ-lěc-těd, pa. par. or a. [ELECT, v.] ĕ-lěc-ti-çişm, s. [Eng. elect ; -ic, -ism.] The system of selecting or choosing out doctrines from other systems; eclecticism. ĕ-lěct-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [ELECT, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of selecting, choosing, or picking out; election, choice.