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1021 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1025.17 (Matthew Henry)
… of votes fell upon the persons here named; and the rest both of the candidates and the electors acquiesced, and made no disturbance, as the members of societies …
1022 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1026.46 (Matthew Henry)
… the votes of the council were taken upon his case, and that by the majority he was found guilty, and then condemned and ordered to be stoned to death, according …
1023 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1034.17 (Matthew Henry)
… not voted, yet came together to hear what was said) kept silence, and gave audience to Paul and Barnabas; it should seem they took more notice of their narrative …
1024 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1043.16 (Matthew Henry)
… to vote for Baal.
1025 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1045.17 (Matthew Henry)
… there voted for the condemning of Christians to die; or, after they were condemned, he justified what was done, and commended it, and so made himself guilty ex …
1026 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1054.16 (Matthew Henry)
… my vote to the law; here is the approbation of the judgment. Wherever there is grace there is not only a dread of the severity of the law, but a consent to the goodness …
1027 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1055.26 (Matthew Henry)
… unanimous vote, the joint desire, of the whole church, all agree in this: Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. The groaning denotes a very earnest and importunate desire …
1028 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. גרל.2
גרל ( cf. Arabic جَرَلٌ, pl. أَجْرَالٌ stones, or stony place planted with trees; جَرِلٌ stony; جَرْوَلٌ, جُرَوِلٌ stony ground, stones; hence foll., because stones were used in casting lots; cf. Gk. Ψῆφος pebble, vote; κύαμος bean, lot ) .
1029 Etymology dictionary, p. absentee (n.).2
"one who is absent," 1530s, from absent (v.) + -ee. In reference to voting, by 1892, American English.
1030 Etymology dictionary, p. abstain (v.).2
… from voting" is from 1796. Related: Abstained; abstaining .
1031 Etymology dictionary, p. abstention (n.).2
… from voting" by 1859.
1032 Etymology dictionary, p. acclamation (n.).2
… voice vote, by 1801, probably from the French Revolution.
1033 Etymology dictionary, p. ambition (n.).2
… solicit votes, hence "a striving for favor, courting, flattery; a desire for honor, thirst for popularity," noun of action from past-participle stem of ambire …
1034 Etymology dictionary, p. ambitious (adj.).2
… solicit votes)," noun of action from past-participle stem of ambire "to go around, go about," from amb- "around" (from PIE root *ambhi- "around") + ire "go" (from PIE root *ei- "to …
1035 Etymology dictionary, p. ballot (v.).2
1540s, "to vote by secret method" (such as ballot balls), from ballot (n.). Related: Balloted; balloting .
1036 Etymology dictionary, p. ballot (n.).2
… in voting," also "secret vote taken by ballots," from Italian pallotte, diminutive of palla "ball," for small balls used as counters in secret voting, from a Germanic …
1037 Etymology dictionary, p. blackball (v.).2
… adverse votes," 1770, from black (adj.) + ball (n.1). The image is of the black balls of wood or ivory that were dropped into an urn as adverse votes during secret ballots …
1038 Etymology dictionary, p. bulletin (n.).2
… "document, voting slip," itself a diminutive of Latin bulla "round object" (see bull (n.2)) with equivalent of Old French -elet (see -let ). For use of balls in voting, see …
1039 Etymology dictionary, p. canvass (v.).2
… "solicit votes or test support before an election" (1550s). Compare Old French canabasser "to examine carefully," literally "to sift through canvas." The spelling …
1040 Etymology dictionary, p. cast (v.).4
… ." Of votes, from 1840, American English. To cast up is from 1530s as "compute, reckon" (accounts, etc.), late 15c. as "eject, vomit."