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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Choose \Choose\, v. t. [imp. {Chose}; p. p. {Chosen}, {Chose}
(Obs.); p. pr & vb n. {Choosing}.] [OE. chesen, cheosen,
AS ce['o]san; akin to OS kiosan D. kiezen G. kiesen
Icel. kj[=o]sa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare to taste, Gr ?,
Skr. jush to enjoy. [root]46. Cf {Choice}, 2d {Gust}.]
1. To make choice of to select; to take by way of preference
from two or more objects offered; to elect; as to choose
the least of two evils.
Choose me for a humble friend. --Pope.
2. To wish; to desire; to prefer. [Colloq.]
The landlady now returned to know if we did not
choose a more genteel apartment. --Goldsmith.
{To choose sides}. See under {Side}.
Syn: Syn. - To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow
Usage: To {Choose}, {Prefer}, {Elect}. To choose is the
generic term, and denotes to take or fix upon by an
act of the will especially in accordance with a
decision of the judgment. To prefer is to choose or
favor one thing as compared with and more desirable
than another, or more in accordance with one's tastes
and feelings. To elect is to choose or select for some
office, employment, use privilege, etc., especially
by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number
of electors. To choose a profession; to prefer private
life to a public one to elect members of Congress.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chose \Chose\,
imp. & p. p. of {Choose}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chose \Chose\, n.; pl {Choses}. [F., fr L. causa cause
reason. See {Cause}.] (Law)
A thing personal property.
{Chose in action}, a thing of which one has not possession or
actual enjoyment, but only a right to it or a right to
demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at
the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not
reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as
a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for
a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant
party without suit.
{Chose in possession}, a thing in possession, as
distinguished from a thing in action
{Chose local}, a thing annexed to a place as a mill.
{Chose transitory}, a thing which is movable. --Cowell.
Blount.
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