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461 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLEE.8 (Noah Webster)
… of voting against his conscience, or giving an unpopular vote. In the phrases in which this verb appears to be transitive, there is really an ellipsis.
462 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FRANCHISE.2 (Noah Webster)
… to vote for governor, senators and representatives, is a franchise belonging to citizens, and not enjoyed by aliens. The right to establish a bank, is a franchise …
463 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIVERYMAN.3 (Noah Webster)
… of voting for members of parliament.
464 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAJORITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The greater number; more than half; as a majority of mankind; a majority of votes in Congress. A measure may be carried by a large or small majority.
465 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MODERATOR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The person who presides over a meeting or assembly of people to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings and declare the vote; as the moderator of a town meeting or of a society.
466 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEGATIVE.5 (Noah Webster)
3. Having the power of stopping or restraining. A negative voice in legislation is a voice or vote to prevent the passing of a law or decree.
467 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NEGATIVE.16 (Noah Webster)
2. To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction. The senate negatived the bill.
468 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NOMENCLATOR.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A person who calls things or persons by their names. In Rome, candidates for office were attended each by a nomenclator, who informed the candidate of the names of the persons they met, and whose votes they wished to solicit.
469 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OUTVOTE.1 (Noah Webster)
OUTVOTE, v.t. To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by plurality of suffrages.
470 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OVERVOTE.1 (Noah Webster)
OVERVOTE, v.t. To outvote; to outnumber in votes given.
471 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASS.10 (Noah Webster)
7. To be enacted; to receive the sanction of a legislative house or body by a majority of votes.
472 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PASS.56 (Noah Webster)
13. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill. Hence,
473 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PEDARIAN.1 (Noah Webster)
PEDARIAN, n. A Roman senator who gave his vote by the feet, that is, by walking over to the side he espoused, in divisions of the senate.
474 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PETALISM.1 (Noah Webster)
… their votes by writing his name on a leaf. Petalism in Syracuse answered to ostracism in Athens.
475 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PLURALITY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. In elections, a plurality of votes is when one candidate has more votes than any other, but less than half of the whole number of votes given. It is thus distinguished from a majority, which is more than half of the whole number.
476 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLL.4 (Noah Webster)
3. The entry of the names of electors who vote for civil officers. Hence,
477 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POLL.6 (Noah Webster)
Our citizens say, at the opening or close of the poll, that is, at the beginning of the register of voters and reception of votes, or the close of the same. They say also, we are going to the poll; many voters appeared at the poll.
478 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. POPULAR.3 (Noah Webster)
So the popular vote inclines.
479 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PREROGATIVE.1 (Noah Webster)
… in voting; proe, before, and rogo, to ask or demand.] An exclusive or peculiar privilege. A royal prerogative, is that special pre-eminence which a king has over …
480 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PRESIDENCY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The office of president. Washington was elected to the presidency of the United States by a unanimous vote of the electors.