| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In an elective manner; by choice.[Websters]
2. In a facultative or casual manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a permissive, optional or appointive manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In a selective, eclectic, adoptive or multiple-choice manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a constituent or cetacean manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective elective.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (elective) | 1. Subject to popular election; "elective official".[Wordnet]. 2. Not compulsory; "elective surgery"; "an elective course of study".[Wordnet]. 3. Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective act.[Websters]. 4. Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of choosing; electoral.[Websters]. 5. Dependent on choice; bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective study; an elective office.[Websters]. 6. Being optional, facultative, voluntary, willing or unconstrained.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being selective, appointive, eclectic or multiple-choice.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being discretionary or arbitrary.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Adjective base of the adverb electively.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"ELECTIVELY" is a common misspelling or typo for: selectively. |
Date "ELECTIVELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ELECTIVELY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] By choice; with preference of one to another. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: elective
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Elective Affinities | Elective Affinities (in German, "Die Wahlverwandtschaften") is an 1809 novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (references) | ||
| Elective affinity | A tendency to unite with certain things; chemism. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Elective course | A course that the student can select from among alternatives. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Elective dictatorship | The phrase elective dictatorship (also called executive dominance in political science) was coined by the former Lord Chancellor, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, in a academic paper of the same name written in 1976. It describes the state in which Parliament is dominated by the executive (often referred to in the UK as "the government"). It refers to the fact that the legislative programme of Parliament is determined by the government, and government bills virtually always pass the House of Commons due to the nature of the governing party's majority. (references) | ||
| Elective franchise | The privilege or right of voting in an election of public officers. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Elective monarchy | An elective monarchy is a monarchy whose reigning king or queen is elected in some form. (references) | ||
| Elective rights | One important issue in a democracy is the limitations on rights to candidate and on suffrage or franchise—that is the decision as to who ought to be entitled to vote. In the Athenian democracy, slaves, foreigners and women were prohibited from voting. These, and racial prohibitions, have been common in democracies. Often they are closely connected to legal personhood issues. (references) | ||
| Elective share | An elective share is a term used in American law relating to inheritance, which describes a proportion of an estate which the surviving spouse of the deceased may claim in place of what they were left in the decedent's will. It may also be called a widow's share, statutory share or forced share. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: elective
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Elective care | Business | Medical, surgical, or dental care that, in the opinion of professional authority, could be performed at another time or place without jeopardizing the patient's life, limb, health, or well-being. Examples are: surgery for cosmetic purposes, vitamins without a therapeutic basis, sterilization procedures, elective abortions, procedures for dental prosthesis, prosthetic appliances, and so on. (references) | |
| Elective Surgery | Engineering | A surgical procedure which is not considered emergency in nature and which may be avoided without undue risk to the patient. (references) | |
| Elective surgery | Geology | Surgery which is not needed immediately; i.e., one for a non-life-threatening disorder. (references) | |
| Surgical Procedures, Elective | Health | Surgery which could be postponed or not done at all without danger to the patient. Elective surgery includes procedures to correct non-life-threatening medical problems as well as to alleviate conditions causing psychological stress or other potential risk to patients, e.g., cosmetic or contraceptive surgery. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: elective | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Elective monarchy | 20 | Elective | 4 | |
| Elective Affinities | 17 | Elective Affinities | 17 | |
| Elective caesarean section | 10 | Elective caesarean section | 10 | |
| Elective dictatorship | 9 | Elective dictatorship | 9 | |
| Elective rights | 8 | Elective monarchy | 20 | |
| Elective share | 7 | Elective rights | 8 | |
| Elective | 4 | Elective share | 7 | |
| Elective surgery | 2 | Elective surgery | 2 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
