Etymology

adlect

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Today it means: To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity. Full definition →

Latin adlegō
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromadlegō
  2. English todayadlect

From adlēct-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adlegō, an alternative spelling of allegō (“to select, choose, recruit, or elect; to admit (to or into something)”).

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