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Definition of Elective

1. Adjective. Subject to popular election. "Elective official"

2. Noun. A course that the student can select from among alternatives.

3. Adjective. Not compulsory. "An elective course of study"

Definition of Elective

1. a. Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.

2. n. In an American college, an optional study or course of study.

Definition of Elective

1. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to voting or elections ¹

2. Adjective. That involves a choice between options; optional or discretionary ¹

3. Noun. Something that is option or that may be elected, especially a course of tertiary study. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Elective

1. an optional course of study [n -S]

Medical Definition of Elective

1. Subject to the choice or decision of the patient or physician, applied to procedures that are advantageous to the patient but not urgent. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Elective

election election commission election day election district election fraud election of remedies election threshold electioneer electioneered electioneerer

electioneerers electioneering electioneers elections elections of remedies elective (current term) elective abortion elective culture elective mutism elective share

elective shares elective surgery electively electiveness electivenesses electives electoral electoral college electoral colleges electoral district

Literary usage of Elective

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"founders of our English monarchy might perhaps, if they had thought proper, have made it an elective monarchy; but they rather chose, and upon good reason, ..."

2. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1908)
"INTRODUCTION The contemporary discussion concerning the elective system for ... HISTORY OF THE QUESTION For nearly a century the elective system has been ..."

3. The Law of Nations: Or, Principles of the Law of Nature, Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty (1883)
"Of elective WE have seen in the preceding chapter, ... Whe- It has been debated, whether elective kings and princes are ther elective real sovereigns. ..."

4. The Law of Nations, Or, Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the by Emer de Vattel, Joseph Chitty, Edward Duncan Ingraham (1867)
"If it confers itself the right of choosing a successor after the sovereign's death, the state is elective. As soon as the prince is elected according to the ..."

5. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1891)
"In fact, of the two states under consideration in which the ministry is responsible, one (France) presents us with the elective executive ; while of the two ..."

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