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/nˈɑmənət/ /nˈɑmənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Nominate v. t. (past & past part. nominated; pres. part. nominating)

To mention by name; to name. (Obs.) "To nominate them all, it is impossible."

To call; to entitle; to denominate. (Obs.)

To set down in express terms; to state. (Obs.) "Is it so nominated in the bond?"

To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place.

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"Nominate" Quotes from Famous Books

... all awfully sorry that you are going, Chris," Field said. "It won't be the same without you at all. We have agreed to ask you to nominate a leader during ...

— With Buller in Natal - A Born Leader • G. A. Henty

... his opponents would nominate William Henry Harrison, because "they have got to take up a soldier; they have tried orators enough." The prophecy was a shrewd one, and in 1840 it was fulfilled to the letter. Upon the present occasion, however, the leaders decided to place no single nominee in the field, but ...

— The Reign of Andrew Jackson • Frederic Austin Ogg

... charity so good amends will not soon recur. But whenever a vacancy shall happen, if you'll favour me with notice of it, I will try to recommend him to the place, even though it should not be my turn to nominate. ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 3 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... astuteness of the experienced politician. "An' what's more," pursued Anderson scornfully, "I'm ag'in that whole ticket. There's only one American on it, an' he was a Democrat up to las' Sunday. Besides, it's ag'in the law to nominate ...

— Anderson Crow, Detective • George Barr McCutcheon

... innuendoes of an heir, and as Josephine knew that she could not bear him one, she was thrown into fits of despondency lest he should be driven by designing persons in and outside his family to listen to a scheme of divorce and remarriage. The alternative was to nominate one of his brothers as his heir. Joseph and Lucien were impossible, so he fixed his mind on Louis. But the plot to assassinate him on the way to the opera, together with the Duc d'Enghien, Cadoudal, Moreau, and Pichegru affair, brought the change from Life Consul to Emperor more quickly. The marriage ...

— The Tragedy of St. Helena • Walter Runciman

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