English Explanatory Dictionary

adlect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.

Word forms

adlect adlects adlecting adlected

Etymology

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)”).

Related words

adlection
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