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Choose v. t. (past chose; past part. chosen, obs. chose; pres. part. choosing)

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."

To wish; to desire; to prefer. (Colloq.) "The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment."

To choose sides. See under Side.

Synonyms: Syn. - To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow. 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.

Choose v. i. (past chose; past part. chosen, obs. chose; pres. part. choosing)

To make a selection; to decide. "They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion."

To do otherwise. "Can I choose but smile?"

Can not choose but, must necessarily. "Thou canst not choose but know who I am."

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Etymology of 'Choose'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Choose" Quotes from Famous Books

... to send forth from our Schools will be remarkable less for something he can take out of his wallet and exhibit for knowledge, than for being something, and that 'something,' a man of unmistakable intellectual breeding, whose trained judgment we can trust to choose the better ...

— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch

... be broke, Or your face get some terrible bruise, Indeed, and indeed, 'tis no joke, And you must not do just as you choose. ...

— Aunt Kitty's Stories • Various

... but I see plainly where his sore lies; and I warrant you I will manage that he stays at the Hall, and that you get back Julian's little companion. Faith, I am sorry myself at the thought of losing the baby, and of having to choose another ride when it is not hunting weather, than round by the Hall, with a word at ...

— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott

... and they realized what Rasputin and his dark forces had stood for, what Protopopoff stood for; they had personally, most of them, pleaded with the czar to clean the court of the sinister pro-German influences—with absolutely no success. They realized that the country must choose between the autocracy as it was and a government of the people if Prussianism was to be defeated, and they did not hesitate ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

... in book or gallery, those great masterpieces of later Egypt, founded upon that work of the Ancient Kingdom already further in time from later Egypt than later Egypt is from us. I knew that I could choose my style where I pleased, that no man can deny to the human mind any power, that power once achieved; and yet I did not wish to recover the first simplicity. If I must be but a shepherd building his hut ...

— Four Years • William Butler Yeats

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