the act of choosing; choice; selection.-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.-power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.-discriminating choice; discernment.-divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of calvinism.-the choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.-those who are elected.