Word Meanings - DIRECTNOMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates without any nominating convention, and, loosely, to the nomination effected, as in the case of candidates for president or senator of the United States, by the election of nominating representatives pledged or instructed to vote for certain candidates dssignated by popular vote.

Electro-dynamical
Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
Public-hearted
Public-spirited.
Conventionalism
That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
Electrolyte
A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.
Statesman
A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
Directing
of Direct
Electro-motive
Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
Unitary
Of or pertaining to a unit or units; relating to unity; as, the unitary method in arithmetic.
Electro-puncturation
Alt. of Electro-puncturing
Without
On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors.
Effectuate
To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.
Electrotonus
The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus.
ELECTROBIOSCOPY
A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction.
Electioneerer
One who electioneers.
Instructible
Capable of being instructed; teachable; docible.
ELECTROLYTICELECTROLYTICAL
Pertaining to electrolysis; as, electrolytic action. -- E*lec`tro*lyt"ic*al*ly, adv.
Electricalness
The state or quality of being electrical.
ELECTROPOSITIVE
Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative. Note:

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