| Pronunciation: | | i'lektiv
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| Matching Terms: | | elective surgery, electively
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- [adj] subject to popular election; "elective official"
- [adj] not compulsory; "elective surgery"; "an elective course of study"
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| | Synonyms: | | elected, electoral, nonappointive, optional |
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| | Antonyms: | | appointed, appointive |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\E*lect"ive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]lectif.]
1. Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective
act.
2. Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of
choosing; electoral.
The independent use of their elective franchise.
--Bancroft.
3. Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as,
an elective study; an elective office.
Kings of Rome were at first elective; . . . for such
are the conditions of an elective kingdom. --Dryden.
{Elective affinity} or {attraction} (Chem.), a tendency to
unite with certain things; chemism.
\E*lect"ive\, n.
In an American college, an optional study or course of study.
[Colloq.]
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