adlects

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A form of adlect — To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of adlect

    Vespasian…adlects senators.

    1980, Ronald Syme, Some Arval Brethren, page 132

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