chuse

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A form of choose — To pick; to make the choice of; to select.

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Meanings

verbchuse (third-person singular simple present chuses, present participle chusing or chuseing, simple past chose, past participle chosen)

present singular third person chuses · participle present chusing · participle present chuseing · past chose · participle past chosen

  1. archaicArchaic spelling of choose.

    "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse," said Mr. Bennet; […]

    1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 13
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    Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome. By loſſe of life libertye, then life by priſon

    1557, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tottel's Miscellany, Whether libertie by losse of life, or life in prison and thraldome be to be preferred, page 298

    Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.

    1739, [David Hume], “Of the Influencing Motives of the Will”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book II (Of the Passions), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC, part III (Of the Will and Direct Passions), page 249

    Your maſter, young man, may a laſs adore--- / For his laſs, ’tis confeſt, / He has choſen the beſt; / But he chuſes a woeful ambaſſador!

    1785, [George Colman the Younger], Songs, Duetts, Trios, &c. N^([sic]) Turk and No Turk; a Musical Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market., London: […] T. Cadell, […], page 21

    The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.

    1789, Constitution of the United States of America

    But if the Almighty choſe to eſtabliſh his religion by miracles, he chuſes to carry it on by means.

    1808, [Hannah More], chapter XXI, in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. […], volume I, London: […] [Strahan and Preston] for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 299
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