Search for: Choice
1821 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELOCUTION.7 (Noah Webster)
4. In ancient treatises on oratory, the wording of a discourse; the choice and order of words; composition; the act of framing a writing or discourse.
1822 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ENFORCEDLY.1 (Noah Webster)
ENFORCEDLY, adv. By violence; not by choice.
1823 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EXQUISITE.1 (Noah Webster)
EXQUISITE, a. s as z. [L. e xquisitus, from exquiro; ex and quaero, to seek.] Literally, sought out or searched for with care; whence, choice; select. Hence,
1824 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FACILITY.3 (Noah Webster)
Though facility and hope of success might invite some other choice.
1825 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FAR.5 (Noah Webster)
The nation far and near contend in choice.
1826 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FIGURE.4 (Noah Webster)
A good figure, or person, in man or woman, gives credit at first sight to the choice of either.
1827 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FLOWER.7 (Noah Webster)
The choice and flower of all things profitable the Psalms do more briefly contain.
1828 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOUND.10 (Noah Webster)
6. To set; to place; to establish on a basis. Christianity is founded on the rock of ages. Dominion is sometimes founded on conquest; sometimes on choice or voluntary consent.
1829 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FOUNDATION.4 (Noah Webster)
3. The basis or ground work, or any thing; that on which any thing stands, and by which it is supported. A free government has its foundation in the choice and consent of the people to be governed. Christ is the foundation of the church.
1830 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FREE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. Instituted by a free people, or by consent or choice of those who are to be subjects, and securing private rights and privileges by fixed laws and principles; not arbitrary or despotic; as a free constitution or government.
1831 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. FREE.7 (Noah Webster)
5. Unconstrained; unrestrained; not under compulsion or control. A man is free to pursue his own choice; he enjoys free will.
1832 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. GUST.9 (Noah Webster)
A choice of it may be made according to the gust and manner of the ancients. [Taste is now generally used.]
1833 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOBNOB.2 (Noah Webster)
Hobson’s choice, a vulgar proverbial expression, denoting without an alternative. It is said to have had its origin in the name of a person who let horses and …
1834 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INDIFFERENT.4 (Noah Webster)
Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die.
1835 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INELIGIBILITY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. State or quality of not being worthy of choice.
1836 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INTENTION.3 (Noah Webster)
Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on every side, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas.
1837 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INVENTION.5 (Noah Webster)
4. In painting, the finding or choice of the objects which are to enter into the composition of the piece.
1838 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INVOLUNTARILY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Not by choice; not spontaneously; against one’s will.
1839 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INVOLUNTARINESS.1 (Noah Webster)
INVOLUNTARINESS, n. Want of choice or will.
1840 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. INVOLUNTARY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Not having will or choice; unwilling.