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441 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CENTURY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A division of the Roman people for the purpose of electing magistrates and enacting laws, the people voting by centuries; also, a company consisting of a hundred men.
442 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.13 (Noah Webster)
6. The act of electing to office by vote; election.
443 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOOSE.11 (Noah Webster)
5. To elect or designate to office or employment by votes or suffrages. In the United States, the people choose representatives by votes, usually by ballot.
444 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CITIZEN.6 (Noah Webster)
5. In the United States, a person, native or naturalized, who has the privilege of exercising the elective franchise, or the qualifications which enable him to vote for rulers, and to purchase and hold real estate.
445 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CITY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. The collective body of citizens, or the inhabitants of a city; as when we say, the city voted to establish a market, and the city repealed the vote.
446 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLOSE.55 (Noah Webster)
Close election, an election in which the votes for different candidates are nearly equal.
447 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONCLUSIVE.4 (Noah Webster)
The agreeing votes of both houses were not, by any law or reason, conclusive to my judgment.
448 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COULD.7 (Noah Webster)
… not vote for officers of government without the possession of some property. AB could not be elected to the office of senator, for want of estate. BC, not being …
449 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COUNTERVOTE.1 (Noah Webster)
COUNTERVOTE, v.t. To vote in opposition; to outvote.
450 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CUSTOM.7 (Noah Webster)
Let him have your custom, but not your votes.
451 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISFRANCHISE.1 (Noah Webster)
DISFRANCHISE, v.t. [dis and franchise.] To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; to deprive of chartered rights and immunities; to deprive of any franchise, as of the right of voting in elections, etc.
452 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIVIDE.15 (Noah Webster)
8. To separate into two parts, for ascertaining opinions for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house, in voting.
453 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIVIDE.19 (Noah Webster)
3. To vote by the division of a legislative house into two parts.
454 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DIVIDE.20 (Noah Webster)
The emperors sat, voted and divided with their equals.
455 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECT.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To select or take for an office or employment; to choose from among a number; to select or manifest preference by vote or designation; as, to elect a representative by ballot or viva voce; to elect a president or governor.
456 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTED.1 (Noah Webster)
ELECTED, pp. Chosen; preferred; designated to office by some act of the constituents, as by vote; chosen or predestinated to eternal life.
457 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTOR.1 (Noah Webster)
… of voting for an officer, In free governments, the people or such of them as possess certain qualifications of age, character and property, are the electors …
458 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENACTMENT.1 (Noah Webster)
ENACTMENT, n. The passing of a bill into a law; the act of voting, decreeing and giving validity to a law.
459 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCEPTION.1 (Noah Webster)
EXCEPTION, n. The act of excepting, or excluding from a number designated, or from a description; exclusion. All the representatives voted for the bill, with the exception of five. All the land is in tillage, with an exception of two acres.
460 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXCLUDE.4 (Noah Webster)
… of voting for representatives.