Jehovah was the Signa Tau, or the cross of Taurus, the bull, with which the elect were sealed in their foreheads.
This Adonai will elect to himself a nation, Jerusalem will become the refuge and city of the abortive, who shall circumcise themselves with the sword and shall adore Adonai.
Invisible, comprehending only the electof God, as Heb.
To nominate and electtheir own church officers, as their deacons, which they did, Acts vi.
They that have power to elect a king, have power also to depute some in their name to set the crown upon his head.
Mr Gladstone moved as a Standing Order that members-elect be allowed at their choice to affirm, at their legal peril.
The right to elect members to the Provincial Councils to be conferred only on those classes and members of the community, prima facie, capable of exercising it wisely and independently.
Unseated for the third time since his perfectly valid return in 1880, Bradlaugh appealed to his constituents to elect him for the fourth time, and was received by them with if possible greater enthusiasm than ever.
I could not take any other office in the Society after having been so long your President; but if you thought it right to elect me a member for life, I should be grateful to you for doing it.
If left to himself, a student might elect to follow the line of the least resistance.
They were elect people set apart to a sacred service which has no equal in this world's history.
When a man and woman take the marriage vows, they have assumed duties and responsibilities more vital and far greater than does a governor or president-elect assume, when he takes the oath of office.
He was at the same time Representative in Congress, Senator-elect from the State of Ohio, President-elect of the United States.
The Democratic ascendency in the South had become so complete that out of one hundred and six Congressional districts the opposition had only been able to elect four representatives,--Leonidas C.
The resolution giving to a plurality the power to elect was carried in the joint convention by a majority of one--forty-one to forty.
The consequences which are possible," argued the protestants, "from admitting the right to elect by a plurality vote, furnish a conclusive argument against it.
The President's reconstruction policy would have been much stronger if the Southern elections to Congress had been postponed, or if the members elect had remained at home during the discussion concerning their eligibility.
It may say that a plurality shall elect if it pleases.
Butler of Tennessee, representative-elect to the Fortieth Congress.
Alas, whatever one may say or do, wisdom, justice, reason, and goodness will never be anything more than special cases and the heritage of a few elect souls.
We must have millions of men in order to produce a few elect spirits: a thousand was enough in Greece.
The bad man creates around him a pandemonium, the artist, an Olympus, the elect soul, a paradise, which each of them sees for himself alone.
The command is still on the elect to come out from the world, and to separate and to shake the dust from their feet, of any house which will not receive the peace bestowed.
It was not, however, exactly the plan of the astrologer to crown the efforts of the elect with success, and bring the devil virtually before them.
Whilst the pious-elect still rested upon their knees in trembling adoration, the priest Pfannenschmidt had recovered from his surprise and alarm.
Only the elect and consecrated would remain behind to take part in the deeper mysteries, and be witness to the incantation by which the astrologist Pfannenschmidt would constrain his majesty the devil to appear.
As for the destination of the elect to eternal life, the Protestants, as well as those of the Roman Church, dispute much among themselves as to whether election is absolute or is founded on the prevision of final living faith.
These evils serve to make the elect imitators of their master, and to increase their happiness.
They represent the demands of the people in the district who elect the men who control them.
It is a profound truth that in a republic the character of the people is shown in the character of the men the people elect to office.
The captains toss a copper for choice of innings, and the winner may elect to send his men to the bat.
If any one dies while he is holding a public office, and more than thirty days before his term of office expires, let those whose business it is elect another to the office in the same manner as before.
To this end all the magistrates, with the exception of the council and prytanes, shall go to the temple of Apollo, and elect by ballot him of the guardians of the law whom they severally think will be the best superintendent of education.
In the second place, all classes are compelled to vote in the election of senators from the first and second class; but the fourth class is not compelled to elect from the third, nor the third and fourth from the fourth.
If so be (si issint soit) they have to go forth out of the city, then ought the said Robert to elect two of the most discreet persons from each ward of the city, to provide for the safe keeping of the city during their absence.
And the Elect shall say to the Redeemed; We behold it is of Divine Mercy alone, of free gift and Election, that we live; Our Virtues and cruel Goodnesses have deserved Eternal Death.
The Elect is one class; you Shall bind them separate; they cannot believe in eternal life Except by miracle and a new birth.
The Elect shall meet the Redeemed, on Albion's rocks they shall meet, Astonished at the Transgressor, in him beholding the Saviour.
By the way my wife elect is perfection, and I hear of nothing but her merits and her wonders, and that she is 'very pretty.
Was not the frequency of balloting occasioned by an attempt on the part of several members of Congress to elect the said plaintiff, Aaron Burr, as president?
These three states would render the election of Colonel Burr certain; two of them could elect Mr. Jefferson.
This determination was made known to the federal members generally, and excited some discontent among the violent of the party, who thought it better to go without a president than to elect Mr. Jefferson.
To Aaron Burr, Vice-president elect of the United States of America.
In some other wards they have no permanent organization, but elect officers at each weekly meeting.
It was arranged that the attack upon the camp should be made the night after election, as it now became fully apparent to all that there was not a shadow of a chance to elect either National or State ticket by the Copperheads.
As Sodom and Gomorrah scourged by fire, 10 As Jericho before God's trumpet-peal, So we the elect ones perish in His ire.
All precious souls are there Most safe, elect by grace, All tears are wiped for ever from their face: Untired in prayer 30 They wait and praise Hidden for a little space.
We haven't done a thing the last month but elect Wat Harlow.
We have to elect Wat Harlow governor, and, believe the Barton Standard, we have some rough road to travel.
As the Governor-elect retreated to the other side of the street, the band at his heels, Bill groaned aloud.
The States," says Chief Justice Marshall, "have only not to elect Senators, and this government expires without a struggle.
Well, the voters in Boston, with this understanding, elect me to Congress, and I proceed to Washington.
It read: My dear boy, your uncle elect sends his heartiest congratulations to you and love to Polly.
He was always speaking of his honesty, and of the honesty of his political friends; he insisted that they must elect honest men, and that his party was the party of honest men.
This elect society, which enlisted crime in the interests of patriotism and religion, made it respectable for all, even for the Radical-Socialist chemist Mandar.
The Convention had just proceeded to electdelegates for the next Congress.
It'll take a damn sight of money to elect me, and I'm going to be elected.
If any member or members of the said board appointed in this will shall refuse to serve, the remaining members or member shall choose and elect a suitable person or persons to fill each vacancy.
I'd rather close the doors of this bank than elect that woman a director!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
