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