Elector

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.

   “Where the qualifications of the electors are the ſame, whether they have to chooſe a ſmall or a large number their votes will fall upon thoſe in whom they have the moſt confidence; whether thoſe happen to be men of large fortunes or of moderate property or of no property at all.”

2. isim A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.

   “I Think this Letter, which was ſent to me by my Electors, worth printing, becauſe as it has convinced me, it may convince others.”

3. isim A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.
4. isim Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).

   “Whan the electours profered to make him [Ottokar II of Bohemia] emperour, he refuſed it, ſaiyng, that it was a greatter thynge to be kynge of Boheme, than emperour of Rome.”

5. isim A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

   “In one of the conflicts, the [Holy Roman] emperor himſelf was put to flight, and very near being made priſoner by the elector of Saxony.”