Search for: Choice
2101 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REFUSAL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; pre-emption. We say, a man has the refusal of a farm or a horse, or the refusal of an employment.
2102 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. REPREHEND.5 (Noah Webster)
I nor advise, nor reprehend the choice.
2103 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.
2104 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.
2105 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.
2106 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 …
2107 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.
2108 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.
2109 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.
2110 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.
2111 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TRAIN.28 (Noah Webster)
My train are men of choice and rarest parts.
2112 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.
2113 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.
2114 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. UNSELECTED.1 (Noah Webster)
UNSELECTED, a. Not selected; not separated by choice.
2115 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VALENTINE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A sweetheart or choice made on Valentine’s day.
2116 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.
2117 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.
2118 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.
2119 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. VOLUNTARY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Acting by choice or spontaneously; acting without being influenced or impelled by another.
2120 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.