v. Obs. exc. Sc. Pa. t. and pple. choised. Forms: 6–9 choise, 6 choyse, 7 choyce, 8 choice. [? a. F. chois-ir, in same sense; or perh. rather an assimilation of CHOOSE v. (? in form chose) to the sb. chois, CHOICE, so that choice, choise would form a pair like advice, advise, use, use, glass, glaze. If it had been only Sc., the oi might have originated as the 16th c. Sc. spelling of ō. Cf. the use of CHOOSE, chose, for choice, adj.] = To CHOOSE.
1505. Seal of Cause, in Blue Blanket (1780), 57 (Jam.). We haue power till choyse a cheplaine till do divyn service.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 357 a. That they them selues woulde choyse some experte Diuine.
1570. Ascham, Scholem., I. (Arb.), 38. By certein sure signes a man mey choise a colt. Ibid. To choise a good witte.
1586. Bright, Melanch., xxxvii. 248. The obiectes onely are to be choysed.
1663. Sir G. Mackenzie, Relig. Stoic, i. (1685), 10. They have chois’d to teach Principles which seem ridiculous.
a. 1700. Sc. Pasquils (1868), 188. And choyc’d a guarden for his church and bed.
1747. Maxwell, Bee Master, 21 (Jam.). Let such as choise straw, be sure to put it on thick.
1756. Mrs. Calderwood, Jrnl., iv. (1884), 94. To choice a Scots name. Ibid., v. 142. I was resolved to see a convent and choised this.
Hence Choised ppl. a., chosen, selected.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 133. Choised seede to be picked.
