Available Definitions:
1) a. - The act of choosing; choice; selection.
2) a. - The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
3) a. - Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
4) a. - Discriminating choice; discernment.
5) a. - Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
6) a. - The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
7) a. - Those who are elected.