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Nominate   /nˈɑmənət/  /nˈɑmənˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Nominate  v. t.  (past & past part. nominated; pres. part. nominating)  
1.
To mention by name; to name. (Obs.) "To nominate them all, it is impossible."
2.
To call; to entitle; to denominate. (Obs.)
3.
To set down in express terms; to state. (Obs.) "Is it so nominated in the bond?"
4.
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



... metaphysical puzzles as to the exact nature of the relations now existing between Ireland and England; whether the repeal of the Poynings' Act and the Declaratory Act were sufficient guarantees of freedom; whether Ireland herself should nominate a Regent or accept the nomination from England. Meanwhile, the sands were running out, and Ireland was a slave to a minute but powerful minority of her sons and, only ...
— The Framework of Home Rule • Erskine Childers

... early, premature upright, vertical first, primary shake, vibrate raise, elevate swing, oscillate lift, elevate leaves, foliage greet, salute beg, importune choose, select beggar, mendicant choose, elect smell, odor same, identical sink, submerge name, nominate dip, immerse follow, pursue room, apartment follow, succeed see, perceive teach, instruct see, inspect teach, inculcate sight, visibility teacher, pedagogue sight, vision tiresome, tedious sight, spectacle empty, vacant glasses, ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor

... you is not known to a single person in this room, and to only one out of it, but you may depend upon what I say. Lord Montfort's cousin retires from Northborough to sit for the county. They think they can nominate his successor as a matter of course. A delusion; your friend Lord Beaumaris ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli

... good investment of excentricity. I take it for granted that the gentlemen whose names are mentioned have nothing to do with the circulars or their doctrines. Any lady who may happen to be intrusted with a revelation may nominate her own pastor, or any other clergyman, one of her apostles; and it is difficult to say to what court the nominees can appeal to get ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... Department should be formed corresponding to that over which Lord Derby had been appointed to preside in Great Britain; and the Lord-Lieutenant himself should accept the position of its official head, and should appoint or nominate some man of known business capacity to preside over the detail of organization. Redmond pressed also that the country should be told definitely what Lord Wimborne had told the conference, that the need was for a total of about ...
— John Redmond's Last Years • Stephen Gwynn


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