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Choice

Choice (choice)
n.(chois)
Choice
[OE. chois, OF. chois, F. choix, fr. choisir to choose; of German origin; cf. Goth. kausjan to examine, kiusan to choose, examine, G. kiesen. ***radic]46. Cf. Choose.]
  1. Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
  2. The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

    Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it.
    Hooker.

  3. Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.

    I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice.
    Bacon.

  4. A sufficient number to choose among.
    Shak.
  5. The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

    The common wealth is sick of their own choice.
    Shak.

  6. The best part; that which is preferable.

    The flower and choice
    Of many provinces from bound to bound.
    Milton.

    To make a choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.

    Syn. - See Volition, Option.

Choice

Choice (choice)
a.
Choice
  1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

    My choicest hours of life are lost.
    Swift.

  2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
  3. Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

    Choice word measured phrase.
    Wordsworth.

    Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful/













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