Search for: Choice
1961 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. COMMUNICATE.6 (Noah Webster)
Common benefits are to be communicated with all, but peculiar benefits with choice.
1962 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONSTRAINT.2 (Noah Webster)
Not by constraint, but by my choice, I came.
1963 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DELIBERATE.1 (Noah Webster)
… a choice or decision; to pause and consider. A wise prince will deliberate before he wages war.
1964 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DELIBERATE.5 (Noah Webster)
1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; applies to persons; as a deliberate judge or counselor.
1965 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DELIBERATION.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The act of deliberating; the act of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; consideration. We say, a measure has been taken with deliberation.
1966 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DETERMINE.7 (Noah Webster)
… the choice; that is, to limit to a particular purpose or direction; as, this circumstance determined him to the study of law. Also, to give a direction to material …
1967 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DILEMMA.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A difficult or doubtful choice; a state of things in which evils or obstacles present themselves on every side, and it is difficult to determine what course to pursue.
1968 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISTRICT.2 (Noah Webster)
… the choice of senators, representatives or electors. Cities and towns are divided into districts for various purposes, as for school, etc. The United States …
1969 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. DISTRICT.5 (Noah Webster)
DISTRICT, v.t. To divide into districts or limited portions of territory. Legislatures district states for the choice of senators. In New England, towns are districted for the purpose of establishing and managing schools.
1970 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ECLOGUE.1 (Noah Webster)
… . [Gr. choice, to select.] Literally, a select piece. Hence, in poetry, a pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other, as the …
1971 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. EGREGIOUS.1 (Noah Webster)
EGREGIOUS, a. [L. egregius, supposed to be from e or ex grege, from or out of or beyond the herd, select, choice.]
1972 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTING.1 (Noah Webster)
ELECTING, ppr. Choosing; selecting from a number; preferring; designating to office by choice or preference; designating or predestinating to eternal salvation.
1973 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTION.1 (Noah Webster)
ELECTION, n. [L. electio.] The act of choosing; choice; the act of selecting one or more from others. Hence appropriately,
1974 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTION.4 (Noah Webster)
2. Choice; voluntary preference; free will; liberty to act or not. It is at his election to accept or refuse.
1975 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTION.8 (Noah Webster)
5. In theology, divine choice; predetermination of God, by which persons are distinguished as objects of mercy, become subjects of grace, are sanctified and prepared for heaven.
1976 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTION.10 (Noah Webster)
6. The public choice of officers.
1977 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTION.11 (Noah Webster)
7. The day of a public choice of officers.
1978 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTIONEERING.2 (Noah Webster)
ELECTIONEERING, n. The arts or practices used for securing the choice of one to office.
1979 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTIVE.1 (Noah Webster)
ELECTIVE, a. Dependent on choice, as an elective monarchy, in which the king is raised to the throne by election; opposed to hereditary.
1980 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ELECTIVE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Pertaining to or consisting in choice or right of choosing; as elective franchise.