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The power or opportunity of choosing; option. Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it. Hooker.

Making choices; fickle. [Obs.] His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.

With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak.

The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

A choice without an alternative; the thing offered or nothing.

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

A choice taw or marble. Dickens.

Offering a choice of two things.

In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.

The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.

or sufficient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.

ual force; to waver; to hesitate. He would not balance or err in the determination of his choice. Locke.

One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.

Bad speaking; bad choice or use of words. Buchanan.

rious food; delicacies; dainties. Shak. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. R. Browning.

To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils. Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.

Selected from a number; picked out; choice. Seven hundred chosen men left-handed. Judg. xx. 16.

or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone that enriches the mind, by preserving what our labor and industry daily collect. Watts.

ng; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

d man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon.