Search for: Choice
2041 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SELECT.2 (Noah Webster)
SELECT, a. Nicely chosen; taken from a number by preference; choice; whence, preferable; more valuable or excellent than others; as a body of select troops; a select company or society; a library consisted of select authors.
2042 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SINISTROUS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Wrong; absurd; perverse. A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the most sinistrous and absurd choice.
2043 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SOLEMNIZE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate; as, to solemnize the birth of Christ. Their choice nobility and flow’r met from all parts to solemnize this feast.
2044 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. STYLE.2 (Noah Webster)
… the choice and arrangement of words; as a harsh style; a dry style; a tumid or bombastic style; a loose style; a terse style; a laconic or verbose style; a flowing …
2045 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUFFRAGE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A vote; a voice given in deciding a controverted question, or in the choice of a man for an office or trust. Nothing can be more grateful to a good man than to be elevated to office by the unbiased suffrages of free enlightened citizens.
2046 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUSPEND.10 (Noah Webster)
5. To hold in a state undermined; as, to suspend one’s choice or opinion.
2047 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TAKE.36 (Noah Webster)
20. To choose; to elect. Take which you please. But the sense of choosing, in this phrase, is derived from the connection of take with please. So we say, take your choice.
2048 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TAKE.75 (Noah Webster)
To take one’s own course, to act one’s pleasure; to pursue the measures of one’s own choice.
2049 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRAIN.28 (Noah Webster)
My train are men of choice and rarest parts.
2050 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNHAPPY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Unfortunate; unlucky. He has been unhappy in his choice of a partner. Affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
2051 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNSATISFIED.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Not content; not pleased; as, to be unsatisfied with the choice of an officer; to be unsatisfied with the wages or compensation allowed.
2052 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNSELECTED.1 (Noah Webster)
UNSELECTED, a. Not selected; not separated by choice.
2053 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VALENTINE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A sweetheart or choice made on Valentine’s day.
2054 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOICE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. A vote; suffrage; opinion or choice expressed. Originally voice was the oral utterance of choice, but it now signifies any vote however given.
2055 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOICE.5 (Noah Webster)
Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice of holy senates, and elect by voice.
2056 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOLITION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of willing the act of determining choice, or forming a purpose. There is a great difference between actual volition, and approbation of judgment.
2057 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOLUNTARY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Acting by choice or spontaneously; acting without being influenced or impelled by another.
2058 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOLUNTARY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Free, or having power to act by choice; not being under restraint; as, man is a voluntary agent.
2059 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOLUNTARY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Proceeding from choice or free will.
2060 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOLUNTARY.9 (Noah Webster)
6. Done freely, or of choice; proceeding from free will. He went into voluntary exile. He made a voluntary surrender.