Synonyms:
nominated, nominative
Meaning: appointed by nomination
Usage examples
And besides, did not all the great lords swear fealty to England, on the day he nominated their king?"
He held this place as a means of being nominated for Congress the next year; he was nominated and defeated.
1860--May 9, nominated for President, "shutting out" Seward, Chase, Cameron, Dayton, Wade, Bates, and McLean.
In a letter about his family history, just before he was nominated for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln wrote:
He was assisted in the administration by a council of three, nominated by himself--John Tod, James Cooper, and Roderick Finlayson.
Lincoln was a member of this body, and, being by that time the unquestioned leader of the Whig minority, was nominated for Speaker, and came within one vote of an election.
1856--Organized the Republican Party and became its chief; nominated vice-president, but was not chosen by its first convention; worked for the Fremont-Dayton presidential ticket.
In 1872 considerable disaffection having arisen in the Republican party at the course pursued by President Grant at the South, the "Liberal Republicans," headed by Sumner, Schurz, and Trumbull, held a convention at Cincinnati, and nominated Horace Greeley for President.
We have never yet learned why it is that Mr. Bonteen, after having been nominated Chancellor of the Exchequer,--for the appointment to that office was declared in the House of Commons by the head of his party,--was afterwards excluded from the Cabinet, and placed in an office made peculiarly subordinate by the fact of that exclusion.