温馨提示：本站仅提供公开网络链接索引服务，不存储、不篡改任何第三方内容，所有内容版权归原作者所有
AI智能索引来源：http://www.wehd.com/16/Chosen.html
点击访问原文链接

Chosen. World English Historical Dictionary

进入原网站 导航首页
Chosen. 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. Chosen ppl. a. For forms see CHOOSE v. Used adjectively in the senses of the verb.

1   1.  Taken by preference, selected, picked out.

2 1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. lxxiii. (1495), 900. A drope of chosen mylke.

3 1483.  Cath. Angl., 64. Chosyn, electus, selectus.

4 1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., I. iv. 53. A guard of chosen Shot I had.

5 1611.  Bible, Ex. xv. 4. His [Pharaohs] chosen captaines also are drowned in the red Sea.

6 1614.  Lodge, trans. Seneca, Life i. The most chosen Romanes and Spaniards inhabited this Corduba from the beginning.

7 1765.  Garrick, in G. Colman, Posth. Lett. (1820), 270. Three Vols. of the most chosen Songs in the french language.

8 1848.  Lytton, Harold, I. i. White seemed his chosen colour.

9 1871.  R. Ellis, Catullus, lxiv. 4. A chosen array, rare bloom of valorous Argos.

10   absol.  1819.  Byron, Juan, II. ccii. She was one Made but to love, to feel that she was his Who was her chosen.

11   2.  Theol. Chosen of God; elect.

12 1382.  Wyclif, 1 Pet. ii. 9. Ȝe ben a kynde chosun [1388 chosun kyn].

13 1533.  Frith, Answ. More (1829), 157. The holy and chosen people of God.

14 1535.  Coverdale, Acts ix. 15. For this man is a chosen vessell vnto me.

15 1594.  Bp. J. King, Jonas (1618), 214. The best and chosenest member I haue shall doe thee seruice.

16 1712.  Addison, Spect., No. 405, ¶ 6. Those who were stiled the chosen People.

17 1827.  Pollok, Course T., VII. That warred Against the chosen saints.

18   b.  absol. Elect. (mostly pl.)

19 c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 93. Þe holie procession, þe he wile maken a domes dai mid hise chosene.

20 c. 1340.  Cursor M., 1609 (Trin.). He him self to pyne didde For his chosen on rode tre.

21 1540.  Coverdale, Fruitf. Less., Wks. (1844), v. 400. He maketh his chosen to be like-fashioned into the image of his Son.

22 1550.  Bale, Sel. Wks. (1849), 396. To their confusion and to the chosen’s comfort.

23 1625.  Bacon, Ess. Truth (Arb.), 500. He … inspireth Light, into the Face of his Chosen.

24 1814.  Southey, Roderick, IV. The servant and the chosen of the Lord.

25 © 2025 WEHD.com

智能索引记录