Adjective

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(used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

He is the President-elect .

* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16

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 .

Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.

* Spenser

colours quaint elect

* Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21

the elect angels

Adjective

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Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion

, chapter=1 citation , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}

Of or relating to an electronic version of a musical instrument that has an acoustic equivalent.

Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.

* (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Electric Pindar.

Drawing electricity from an external source; not battery-operated; corded.