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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : el-i-juh-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛl ɪ dʒə bəl |
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Définition of eligible
Origin :- early 15c., "fit or proper to be chosen," from Middle French eligible "fit to be chosen" (14c.), from Late Latin eligibilis "that may be chosen," from Latin eligere "choose" (see election). Related: Eligibly.
- adj fit, worthy
- But, O my dear, the single life is by far the most eligible to me: indeed it is.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Women are eligible to membership in this General Conference.
- Extract from : « Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 7. » by Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
- Why, the demand for eligible males is three hundred per cent.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Of the eligible men there Mr. Cecil Underwood seemed, on enquiry, to be the most eligible.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- The question was raised whether, as a prisoner, he was eligible.
- Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
- Now there are none others but infants, none of eligible age.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
- They ought to be eligible without the courses of the second group.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- Only those having taken Course I should be eligible to this class.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- Protestants were pronounced to be eligible to public office.
- Extract from : « Henry IV, Makers of History » by John S. C. Abbott
- Office Holding: Women are not eligible to any elective office.
- Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various
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