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/nˈɑmənˌeɪtəd/ 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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"Nominated" Quotes from Famous Books

... to hold him back, and on October 8 the military authorities consented to his return to his regiment, and with the permission was combined the news that he had been nominated for the cross of the Legion of Honour. The letter in which he announces that fact to the ladies at home—"mes cheres Grand'mere et Tante"—is charming in its simplicity. "La croix gagnee sur un champ de bataille, c'est a mes yeux le plus beau reve qu'un jeune Francais put faire; ...

— Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France • Edmund Gosse

... (Cabinet-Parliamentary government) - a government in which members of an executive branch (the cabinet and its leader - a prime minister, premier, or chancellor) are nominated to their positions by a legislature or parliament, and are directly responsible to it; this type of government can be dissolved at will by the parliament (legislature) by means of a no confidence vote or the leader of the cabinet may dissolve the parliament ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... that, Mrs. Carrington?" Cicily inquired, with a pleased smile for the one thus honored. "You're nominated." ...

— Making People Happy • Thompson Buchanan

... being of a State is more in its people, that is, in the persons selected from its inhabitants to be the depositaries of its political power, than it is in its geographical boundaries and area. Over this people thus constituted by himself, Mr. Johnson set Provisional Governors nominated by himself. These Governors called popular conventions, whose members were elected by the votes of those to whom Mr. Johnson had given the right of suffrage; and these conventions proceeded to do what Mr. Johnson dictated. Everywhere Mr. Johnson; nowhere the assumed rights of the ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various

... no one should be invested with bishopric or abbacy, either by king or layman, by the customary badges of ring and crosier. Anselm, on his part, agreed that no prelate should be refused consecration who was nominated by the King. The appointment of bishops remained with the King; but the consecration could be withheld by the primate, since he alone had the right to give the badges of office, without which spiritual functions could not be ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume V • John Lord

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