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1941 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.5 (Noah Webster)
Where there is force, there can be no choice.
1942 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.6 (Noah Webster)
Of these alternatives we have our own choice.
1943 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.8 (Noah Webster)
I imagine Cesars apothems were collected with judgment and choice.
1944 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.10 (Noah Webster)
Nor let thy conquests only be her choice.
1945 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.11 (Noah Webster)
5. The best part of any thing; that which is preferable, and properly the object of choice.
1946 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.12 (Noah Webster)
In the choice of our sepulchers bury thy dead. Genesis 23:6 .
1947 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.14 (Noah Webster)
To make choice of, to choose; to select; to separate and take in preference.
1948 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.15 (Noah Webster)
CHOICE, a.
1949 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.18 (Noah Webster)
My revenue is better than choice silver. Proverbs 8:19 .
1950 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.19 (Noah Webster)
2. Holding dear; preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; as, to be choice of time or of advantages.
1951 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE.20 (Noah Webster)
3. Selecting with care, and due attention to preference; as, to be choice of ones company.
1952 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICE-DRAWN.1 (Noah Webster)
CHOICE-DRAWN, a. Selected with particular care.
1953 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICELY.1 (Noah Webster)
CHOICELY, adv.
1954 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICELY.2 (Noah Webster)
1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference; with exact choice; as a band of men choicely collected.
1955 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOICELY.4 (Noah Webster)
3. With great care; carefully; as a thing choicely preserved.
1956 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.
1957 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.
1958 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.
1959 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHOOSING.2 (Noah Webster)
CHOOSING, n. Choice; election.
1960 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.