Search for: Choice
4421 Etymology dictionary, p. elite (n.).2
"a choice or select body, the best part," 1823, from French élite "selection, choice," from Old French eslite (12c.), fem. past participle of elire, elisre "pick out, choose …
4422 Etymology dictionary, p. exquisite (adj.).2
early 15c., "carefully selected," from Latin exquisitus "choice," literally "carefully sought out," from past participle stem of exquirere "search out thoroughly," from ex "out" (see ex- ) + quaerere "to seek" (see query (v.)).
4423 Etymology dictionary, p. favorite (n.).4
… special choice of the people of some state."
4424 Etymology dictionary, p. Fergus.2
… *gustu- "choice," from PIE root *geus- "to taste; to choose."
4425 Etymology dictionary, p. fine (adj.).2
… quality, choice," from Old French fin "perfected, of highest quality" (12c.), a back-formation from finire or else from Latin finis "that which divides, a boundary …
4426 Etymology dictionary, p. finished (adj.).2
… "refined, choice, elegant;" 1560s as "minutely precise or exact." Meaning "thin in consistency" is from c. 1400. From 1580s as "brought to a conclusion." Of made things …
4427 Etymology dictionary, p. frag (v.).2
by 1970, U.S. military slang, back-formed verb from slang noun shortening of fragmentation grenade (1918), which was said to have been the weapon of choice over a firearm because the evidence is destroyed in the act. Related: Fragged; fragging .
4428 Etymology dictionary, p. *geus-.3
It forms all or part of: Angus; choice; choose; degustation; disgust; Fergus; gustation; gustatory; gusto; ragout; Valkyrie .
4429 Etymology dictionary, p. Hennessey.2
Irish surname, from O'(h)Aonghusa "descendant of Aonghus " ("one-choice").
4430 Etymology dictionary, p. heresy (n.).2
… , a choice, a means of taking; a deliberate plan, purpose; philosophical sect, school," from haireisthai "take, seize," middle voice of hairein "to choose," a word of unknown …
4431 Etymology dictionary, p. Hobson's choice (n.).1
Hobson's choice (n.)
4432 Etymology dictionary, p. Hobson's choice (n.).2
… a choice of the horse next in line or none at all. Phrase popularized c. 1660 by Milton, who was at Cambridge from 1625-29.
4433 Etymology dictionary, p. hog (n.).4
… the choice bits. But it is perhaps rather from the allegorical story (recorded in English from 1779) of Muslim sophists, forbidden by their faith from eating …
4434 Etymology dictionary, p. hypostasis (n.).2
… made choice of the word hypostasis, and the Latins of persona; which change proved the occasion of endless disagreement" ["Pantologia, A New Cabinet Cyclopaedia …
4435 Etymology dictionary, p. inelegant (adj.).2
c. 1500, from French inélégant (15c.), from Latin inelegantem (nominative inelegans ) "not elegant, not choice," also "without taste, without judgment," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + elegans (see elegant ). Related: Inelegantly .
4436 Etymology dictionary, p. liberty (n.).2
… ., "free choice, freedom to do as one chooses," also "freedom from the bondage of sin," from Old French liberte "freedom, liberty, free will" (14c., Modern French liberté …
4437 Etymology dictionary, p. lief (adv.).3
… of choice or preference ( and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment; "Measure for Measure"). I want and I'd …
4438 Etymology dictionary, p. list (n.4).2
c. 1200, "pleasure, enjoyment;" mid-13c., "desire, wish, will, choice," from list (v.4). Somehow English has lost listy (adj.) "pleasant, willing (to do something); ready, quick" (mid-15c.).
4439 Etymology dictionary, p. lot (n.).4
Meaning "choice resulting from the casting of lots" first attested c. 1200. Meaning "share or portion of life" in any way, "that which is given by fate, God or destiny …
4440 Etymology dictionary, p. luxury (n.).3
… is choice or costly" is from 1630s; that of "sumptuous surroundings" is from 1704; that of "something choice or comfortable beyond life's necessities" is from …