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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 178 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CANDIDATE , one who offers himself or is selected by others for an See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office or See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, particularly one who puts up for See also:

election to See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament or to any public See also:

BODY

body. The word is derived from the Latin candidatus, clad in See also:

white (candidus). In See also:

Rome, candidates for election to the higher magistracies appeared in the Campus Martins, the See also:

FORUM (Lat. from foris, " out of doors ")

Forum and other public places, during their See also:

CANVASS (an older spelling of " canvas ")

canvass, in togas with the white of the natural See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool brightened by See also:

CHALK

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