elect

IPA: ɪɫˈɛkt

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

(postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

Examples of "elect" in Sentences

The Old Testament applies the term elect, or chosen, only to the
The president-elect is planning to fly to Washington on Sunday, and arrive in the evening.
We saw reason to believe that Abraham's case was a type of all other elect -- _elect for the service of others_.
The president-elect is motorcading from one urgent meeting to another, creating new posts - including an efficiency adviser - to get it all under control.
Standard procedure also includes banning low-altitude flights over public places where a president or president-elect is located, including along train routes.
The president-elect is expected to name [Cass] Sunstein — his friend and informal adviser — to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a transition official said late Wednesday.
We are in a world in which the incoming Democratic President-elect is being asked questions by journalists about whether or not he has an answer for economist Paul Krugman on whether or not our New New Deal is big enough.
Which, when it was full, they drew to shore -- for the separation will not be made till the number of the elect is accomplished. and sat down -- expressing the deliberateness with which the judicial separation will at length be made. and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away -- literally,