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Choice \Choice\, a. [Compar. {Choicer}; superl. {Choicest}.]
1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior;
precious; valuable.
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My choicest hours of life are lost. --Swift.
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2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; --
used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
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3. Selected with care, and due attention to preference;
deliberately chosen.
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Choice word measured phrase. --Wordsworth.

Syn: Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare;
chary; careful/
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Choice \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. [root]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.
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2. The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
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Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take
be so in our power that we might have refused it.
--Hooker.
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3. Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing
what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference;
discrimination.
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I imagine they [the apothegms of C[ae]sar] were
collected with judgment and choice. --Bacon.
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4. A sufficient number to choose among. --Shak.
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5. The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and
selected in preference to others; selection.
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The common wealth is sick of their own choice.
--Shak.
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6. The best part; that which is preferable.
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The flower and choice
Of many provinces from bound to bound. --Milton.
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{To make a choice of}, to choose; to select; to separate and
take in preference.

Syn: Syn. - See {Volition}, {Option}.
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