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2021 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICELY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. With great care; carefully; as a thing choicely preserved.
2022 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICENESS.1 (Noah Webster)
CHOICENESS, n. Valuableness; particular value or worth; as the choiceness of a plant or of wine.
2023 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOOSE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To pick out; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more things offered; to make choice of.
2024 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOOSE.14 (Noah Webster)
2. To have the power of choice. The phrase, he cannot choose but stay, denotes that he has not the power of choice, whether to stay or not.
2025 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOOSING.2 (Noah Webster)
CHOOSING, n. Choice; election.
2026 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMBAT.5 (Noah Webster)
After the fall of the republic, the Romans comabated only for the choice of maters.
2027 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMMUNICATE.6 (Noah Webster)
Common benefits are to be communicated with all, but peculiar benefits with choice.
2028 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONSTRAINT.2 (Noah Webster)
Not by constraint, but by my choice, I came.
2029 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DELIBERATE.1 (Noah Webster)
… a choice or decision; to pause and consider. A wise prince will deliberate before he wages war.
2030 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DELIBERATE.5 (Noah Webster)
1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; applies to persons; as a deliberate judge or counselor.
2031 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DELIBERATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of deliberating; the act of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; consideration. We say, a measure has been taken with deliberation.
2032 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DETERMINE.7 (Noah Webster)
… the choice; that is, to limit to a particular purpose or direction; as, this circumstance determined him to the study of law. Also, to give a direction to material …
2033 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DILEMMA.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A difficult or doubtful choice; a state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue.
2034 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISTRICT.2 (Noah Webster)
… the choice of senators, representatives or electors. Cities and towns are divided into districts for various purposes, as for school, etc. The United States …
2035 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISTRICT.5 (Noah Webster)
DISTRICT, v.t. To divide into districts or limited portions of territory. Legislatures district states for the choice of senators. In New England, towns are districted for the purpose of establishing and managing schools.
2036 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ECLOGUE.1 (Noah Webster)
… . [Gr. choice, to select.] Literally, a select piece. Hence, in poetry, a pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other, as the …
2037 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EGREGIOUS.1 (Noah Webster)
EGREGIOUS, a. [L. egregius, supposed to be from e or ex grege, from or out of or beyond the herd, select, choice.]
2038 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTING.1 (Noah Webster)
ELECTING, ppr. Choosing; selecting from a number; preferring; designating to office by choice or preference; designating or predestinating to eternal salvation.
2039 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTION.1 (Noah Webster)
ELECTION, n. [L. electio.] The act of choosing; choice; the act of selecting one or more from others. Hence appropriately,
2040 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTION.4 (Noah Webster)
2. Choice; voluntary preference; free will; liberty to act or not. It is at his election to accept or refuse.