choice

adj

Etymology: From Middle English choys, from a merger of the noun above and Middle English chyse, chuse, chys, chis (“choice, excellent”), from Old English ċīes (“choice; dainty; nice”), related to Old English ċēosan (“to choose”).

1. Especially good or preferred.

   “It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.”

   “This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.”

2. Careful in choosing; discriminating.

   “that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.”

   “Choice word, and measured phrase; above the reach / Of ordinary men; a stately speech;”

intj

Etymology: From Middle English choys, from a merger of the noun above and Middle English chyse, chuse, chys, chis (“choice, excellent”), from Old English ċīes (“choice; dainty; nice”), related to Old English ċēosan (“to choose”).

1. Cool; excellent.

   “"I'm going to the movies." —"Choice!"”

name

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *causīre (“to choose”), from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kausjan, “to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic *kauzijaną, from *keusaną (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”), Old English ċēosan (“to choose”), Old Norse kjósa (“to choose”). More at choose.

1. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

   “Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?”

   “Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.”

2. The power to choose.

   “She didn't leave us much choice.”

   “For he is also the political leader of the nation, or has it in his choice to be.”

3. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

   “The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.”

4. Anything that can be chosen.

   “You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate.”

5. The best or most preferable part.

   “The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.”

6. Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.

   “I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice.”

   “We see children perpetually running from place to place to hunt out something new; they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by every thing, because every thing has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it.”

7. A sufficient number to choose among.

   “And, which is more, she is not so divine, / So full replete with choice of all delights”

8. Ellipsis of axiom of choice.

   “5. ZF* is the theory obtained from the aforementioned axiomatics (without choice) by adding the Axiom of Inaccessible Cardinals to be explained in the next secion; similarly, we get ZFC*.”