English

Verb

chuse ‎(third-person singular simple present chuses, present participle chusing, simple past and past participle chused)

1. Obsolete spelling of choose
   • 1557, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tottel's Miscellany, Whether libertie by losse of life, or life in prison and thraldome be to be preferred, page 298:

     Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome.
     By loſſe of life libertye, then life by priſon

   • 1739 David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature: Book II:

     Secondly, When in exerting any passion in action, we chuse means insufficient for the design'd end, and deceive ourselves in our judgment of causes and effects.

   • 1817, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse," said Mr. Bennet

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:chuse.