chuse

Verb

1. Archaic spelling of choose.
   • Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome. By loſſe of life libertye, then life by priſon - 1557, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tottel's Miscellany, Whether libertie by losse of life, or life in prison and thraldome be to be...
   • Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects. - 1739, [David Hume], “Of the Influencing Motives of the...
   • Your maſter, young man, may a laſs adore--- / For his laſs, ’tis confeſt, / He has choſen the beſt; / But he chuſes a woeful ambaſſador! - 1785, [George Colman the Younger], Songs, Duetts, Trios, &c. N^([sic]) Turk and...