Choice , a.
[Compar. Choicer (?); superl.
Choicest (?).]
1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
My choicest hours of life are lost.
Swift.
2.
Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
3. Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.
Choice word measured phrase.
Wordsworth.
Syn. -
Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare; chary; careful/
Choice (chois), n. [OE.
chois, OF. chois, F.
choix, fr. choisir to choose; of German origin; cf. Goth. kausjan to examine, kiusan to choose, examine, G. kiesen. √46. Cf. Choose.]
1. Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
2. 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.
3.
Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be
preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.
I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar]
were collected with judgment and choice.
Bacon.
4.
A sufficient number to choose among.
Shak.
5. The thing or person chosen; that which is
approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
The common wealth is sick of their
own choice.
Shak.
6. The best part; that which is preferable.
The flower and choice
Of many provinces from bound to
bound.
Milton.
To make a choice of, to choose; to
select; to separate and take in preference.
Syn. - See Volition, Option.
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