chose
- simplepast ofchoose
- (colloquial, nonstandard)pastparticiple ofchoose
1671,John Milton, “The First Book”, inParadise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […],→OCLC,page10, lines165-166:From what conſummate vertue I havechoſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
2010, Andrew Noble Koss,World War I and the Remaking of Jewish Vilna[2],Stanford University Press, page x:Since this work is about Vilna's Jewish community, I havechose the familiar spelling Vilna, which closely approximates Jews' preferred name for their city.
- simplepast ofchuse
FromMiddle Frenchchose, fromLatincausa(“cause, reason”).Doublet ofcause.
chose (pluralchoses)
- (law) Athing;personalproperty.
Inherited fromOld Frenchchose, fromLatincausa. CompareItaliancosa,Portuguesecoisa,Spanishcosa among many others. Comparecause, a borrowed doublet.
chose f (pluralchoses)
- thing
- Synonym:truc
1580,Michel de Montaigne,De la cruauté: Essais:Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autreschoses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.- The Agrigentines had a common use solemnly to inter the beasts they had a kindness for, as horses of some rare quality, dogs, and useful birds, and even those that had only been kept to divert their children; and the magnificence that was ordinary with them in all otherthings, also particularly appeared in the sumptuosity and numbers of monuments erected to this end, and which remained in their beauty several ages after.
chose
- alternative form ofchois
FromOld Frenchchose,cose.
chose f (pluralchoses)
- thing
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chose m orf
- (Jersey)self-conscious
- cosa(very early Old French)
- cose(chiefly Old Northern French)
From earliercose,cosa, inherited fromLatincausa. Comparecause.
choseoblique singular, f (oblique pluralchoses,nominative singularchose,nominative pluralchoses)
- thing(miscellaneous object or concept)
1260–1267,Brunetto Latini, “Cist premiers livres parole de la naissance de touteschoses [This first book talks about the birth of allthings]” (chapter 1),Livre I - Premiere partie, inLivres dou Tresor [Book of Treasures]; republished as Polycarpe Chabaille, compiler,Li livres dou tresor par Brunetto Latini[3], Paris: Imprimerie impériale,1863,page 1:si come li sires qui vuet en petit leu amasserchoses de grandisme vaillance[…] por acroistre son pooir[…] i met il les plus chiereschoses et les plus precieux joiaus que il puet, selonc sa bone entencion, tout autressi est li cors de cest livre compilez de sapience- Just like the lord, who wishes to accumulate very valuablethings in a tiny place […] in order to increase his power, […] puts there—according to his good intention—the dearestthings and the most precious jewels he can, so the body of this book is filled with knowledge
