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† Choose sb. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. † Choose sb. Obs. Forms: 4 chos, Sc. choss, 4–6 chose, 5 chooce, 6, 7 choose. [A variant of CHOICE treated as verbal sb. from CHOOSE, and assimilated in form to the verb. Perh. to a certain extent phonetic, oi being in 15–16th c. Scotch often reduced to o, e.g., rejose, jone; and conversely oi written for ō as rois, clois.]

1   1.  The act of choosing, selection.

2 1375.  Barbour, Bruce, III. 264. Giff that thaim war set in choss, To dey, or to leyff cowartly.

3 1430.  Lydg., Chron. Troy, III. xxii. Some will have of chose geseran.

4 1548.  Gest, Pr. Masse, 105. Ye prophet prophesieth … of the succession, chose, and acceptaunce of a new [sacrifyce].

5 1570–87.  Holinshed, Scot. Chron. (1806), II. 237. Of whom could they better take choose than of a king their neighbour?

6 c. 1620.  Z. Boyd, in Zion’s Flowers (1855), Introd. 23. Referring to the said revisours to make choose of such of my Workis.

7   2.  Power, right or privilege of choosing.

8 a. 1300.  Cursor M., 8550 (Cott.). Mi lauerd … gis þe chose [Gött. choys] o thinges thre.

9 1523.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. lxiii. 85. Let them be at their chose.

10 1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 144. He is an vnhappy man … that god … putteth hym in chose, and woll chose the worst parte.

11   3.  Scope for choice.

12 1486.  Bk. St. Albans, D iij a. Off spare hawke bellis ther is chooce.

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