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Definition of Electable
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Literary usage of Electable
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1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"... and too artistic to be called a photograph; but it is executed with a merciless faithfulness that has often elicited both characterizations. r\electable ..."
2. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1860)
"... with many excellent Poems and electable Sonnets. Lond. 1610, 4to. in he collection of JP Collyer, ..."
3. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"8, which created the offices of surveyors of I highways,4 whose incumbents were electable by the parish, and whose special duty it was to keep the roads in ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"And this comes so near including every man that it may be said that almost every man is eligible to office; that is to say, is electable, if the people ..."