elect

noun

1. One chosen or set apart.
2. In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.

   “Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.”

   “Shall not God avenge his won elect?”

verb

1. (transitive)To choose or make a decision (to do something).
2. (transitive)To choose (a candidate) in an election.

   “President Obama in a speech this past week said that we should solve the nation's bee problem. Oh, God, we elected a guy who sympathizes with bees?”

adj

1. (not-comparable, postpositional)Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

   “He is the President elect.”

   “She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.”

2. (not-comparable)Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

   “colours quaint elect”

   “the elect angels”