Dictionary entry

Elector (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

E‐lect″or (?), a. [Cf. F. électoral.] Pertaining to an election or to electors.

In favor of the electoral and other princes. Burke.

Electoral college, the body of princes formerly entitled to elect the Emperor of Germany; also, a name sometimes given, in the United States, to the body of electors chosen by the people to elect the President and Vice President.