Search for: voting
1041 Etymology dictionary, p. color (n.).7
… whites voting in unity and taking back control of state governments during Reconstruction (it had been called white line about a year earlier, and with more …
1042 Etymology dictionary, p. conk (v.).2
… (metal) voting urn [William Smith, "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities"].
1043 Etymology dictionary, p. constituency (n.).2
"body of constituents," especially "a body of persons voting for an elective officer," 1806, from constituent + abstract noun suffix -cy .
1044 Etymology dictionary, p. co-opt (v.).2
… a vote of members," from Latin cooptare "to elect, to choose as a colleague or member of one's tribe," from assimilated form of com- "together" (see com- ) + optare "choose …
1045 Etymology dictionary, p. disfranchise (v.).2
"deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen or member of a corporation," especially that of voting, late 15c., from dis- + franchise (v.). Related: Disfranchised; disfranchising; disfranchisement .
1046 Etymology dictionary, p. election (n.).2
… a vote by a body of electors by established procedure; the time and place of such a vote," from Anglo-French eleccioun, Old French elecion "choice, election, selection …
1047 Etymology dictionary, p. electioneer (v.).2
… of votes, etc.; to work for the success of a candidate or of a party in an election," 1760 (implied in verbal noun electioneering ), from election, probably on model …
1048 Etymology dictionary, p. emperor (n.).3
… by vote of the Roman army on a successful general, later by the Senate on Julius and Augustus Caesar and adopted by their successors except Tiberius and Claudius …
1049 Etymology dictionary, p. enfranchise (v.).2
… to voting privileges. Related: Enfranchised; enfranchisement .
1050 Etymology dictionary, p. faggot (n.2).3
Other obsolete British senses of faggot were "man hired into military service merely to fill out the ranks at muster" (1700) and "vote manufactured for party purposes" (1817).
1051 Etymology dictionary, p. flapper (n.).5
… over voting rights.
1052 Etymology dictionary, p. franchise (n.).3
… to vote" (1790). From mid-15c. as "right to buy or sell," also "right to exclude others from buying or selling, a monopoly;" meaning "authorization by a company to sell …
1053 Etymology dictionary, p. grandfather (n.).2
… -Reconstruction voting restrictions (literacy, property tax) in the U.S. South for men whose forebears had had the right to vote before 1867 (thus allowing …
1054 Etymology dictionary, p. Greenwich.2
… Domingo voted against it; France and Brazil abstained. The Greenwich Village quarter of New York City has been symbolic of "American bohemia" at least since …
1055 Etymology dictionary, p. local (adj.).3
… to vote on whether to allow the sale of intoxicating liquor there." Local talent "attractive women thereabouts" is from 1947 in UK slang; earlier it was used …
1056 Etymology dictionary, p. log-rolling (n.).2
… legislative vote-trading sense, "mutual aid given in carrying out several schemes or gaining individual ends," 1823, American English, from the notion of neighbors …
1057 Etymology dictionary, p. majority (n.).3
… " (of votes, etc.) is by 1690s; that of "the excess of one of two groups of enumerated votes over the other" is by 1743. The majority "the dead" recorded from 1719; hence …
1058 Etymology dictionary, p. maverick (n.).4
… to vote for the Gavagan federal anti-lynching bill. Not only did he vote for it, but he made a speech on the floor of the House in support of it."
1059 Etymology dictionary, p. NASCAR.2
… to vote Republican at least once every four years" was coined 2003 by Democratic pollster Celinda Lake.
1060 Etymology dictionary, p. no (adv.).3
… negative vote," 1650s as "person who casts a negative vote."