Old form of「grasping one's god」on top of「use hands, talented」( 舉, 擧) meaning to RAISE with a HELPING HAND or to MAKE AN ELECTION, and DO SOMETHING AS A GROUP. Note that public officials being elected is a modern meaning, not one used in the past (all officials were appointed, born into their position, or bought it). Some action of raising hands up and down such as weight-lifting, saluting, and so on, being sure to either touch, stroke, or move the hand(s) beyond the head (…whatever that might signify).
　「Like humans but unlike chimps and most other animals, bonobos separate sex from reproduction. They seem to treat sex as a pleasurable activity, and they rely on it as a sort of social glue, to make or break all sorts of relationships. 'Ancestral humans behaved like this,' proposes Frans de Waal, an ethologist at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center at Emory University. 'Later, when we developed the family system, the use of sex for this sort of purpose became more limited, mainly occurring within families [i.e., incest]. A lot of the things we see, like pedophilia and homosexuality, may be leftovers that some now consider unacceptable in our particular society.' 」
　　[　https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/casual-sex-play-common-among-bonobos 2023-05-14　]　
　Many, if not most, anthropologists understand that bonobos today exhibit the behavior of early humans, and modern humans, too:
　「Sometimes females would rather GG-rub [genital-to-genital] with each other than copulate with a male. Parish filmed a 15-minute scene at a bonobo colony at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in which a male, Vernon, repeatedly solicited two females, Lisa and Loretta. Again and again he arched his back and displayed his erect penis—the bonobo request for sex. The females moved away from him, tactfully turning him down until they crept behind a tree and GG-rubbed with each other.」
　　[　https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/casual-sex-play-common-among-bonobos 2023-05-14　]　
　「The bonobo, an African ape closely related to humans, has an even bigger sexual appetite. Studies suggest 75 percent of bonobo sex is nonreproductive and that nearly all bonobos are bisexual.」　[　https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/weird-animal-sex-facts 2023-05-44　]　

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: Japanese variant of 舉|举
Japanese: to assemble everything together, to do something as a group, to rise, to vomit, to do for, to complete …, to humbly do …, all together, unanimously
Unihan extended: raise, lift up; recommend
EDRDG: raise; plan; project; behavior; actions

Used within names (nanori)
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