Nominate

To propose for an appointment; to designate for an office, a privilege, a living, &c. Nomination: the act of designating or proposing persons for appointment to offices, livings in the church, &c. Also, sometimes, and particularly in the plural, the names or persons designated; as in the expression, the president sent in nominations; the nominations were confirmed. The rights of nominating and of presenting to a living are distinct, and may reside in different persons. Presentation is the offering a clerk to the bishop. Nomination is the offering a clerk to the person who has heirs that, whenerer the church becomes vacant, he will present such a person as A or his heirs shall nominate. He who has the right of nomination is, to most purposes, considered as the patron of the church. Broion. i