For forms see verb. [f. CHOOSE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CHOOSE in various senses; selection, adoption, picking out, electing, etc.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 19. Noht after chesunge ac after strene.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 8566 (Cott.). Wisli þou has in chesing [Fairf. chosing] don.
1340. Ayenb., 42. Dingnetes þet me makeþ be chyezinge.
c. 1440. Hylton, Scala Perf. (W. de W., 1494), II. iv. Man in hys fyrste fourmynge … had free chesyng.
1458. MS. Christ’s Hosp. Abingdon, in Dom. Archit., III. 42. They cockid for cartes, and cast for her chisyng.
1556. Chron. Gr. Friars (1852), 17. A stryffe in the yelde halle for chesynge of the mayer.
1563. Homilies, II. Repentance I. (1859), 530. A superstitious abstinency, and chosyng of meates.
1597. Bacon, Coulers Good & Evill (Arb.), 150. Women that marrie husbandes of their owne choosing.
1651. Sir E. Nicholas, in N. Papers (1886), 266. A rule that there should bee noe picking and chuseing of partes of directions.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 112, ¶ 2. Several Texts of his own choosing.
1830. Cunningham, Brit. Paint., I. 308. After long chusing selected a subject.
