Dictionary entry

Vote (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Vote, v. t. 1. To choose by suffrage; to elec�; as, to vote a candidate into office.

2. To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution.

Parliament voted them one hundred thousand pounds. Swift.

3. To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore.

4. To condemn; to devote; to doom. Glanvill.