to make one's election

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.The act of choosing; choice; selection. [1913 Webster]

2.The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor. [1913 Webster]

Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom.— J. Adams.[1913 Webster]

3.Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. "By his own election led to ill." --Daniel. [1913 Webster]

4.Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

To use men with much difference and election is good.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

5.(Theol.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. [1913 Webster]

There is a remnant according to the election of grace.— Rom. xi. 5.[1913 Webster]

6.(Law) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other. [1913 Webster]

7.Those who are elected. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

The election hath obtained it.— Rom. xi. 7.[1913 Webster]

To contest an election. See under Contest.

To make one's election, to choose. [1913 Webster]

He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths.— Fitzed. Hall.[1913 Webster]