Obs. Also 5 elyte; pa. t. elit. [f. OF. (eslit) elit, obs. pa. pple. of the verb elire to ELECT.] trans. To choose; to elect to office.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 1491. Of his Deghter … One Creusa was cald … þat Eneas afterward elit to wed.
1461. T. Denyes, in Paston Letters, No. 397 (1874), II. 22. He may not of reson do so largely … be cause he is elyted, as the Comons myght.
