chuse
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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The Constitution states only that “The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers.”
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2013
Clause 5: The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2012
What, do I chuse Samuel Miles to determine for me whether John Adams or Thomas Jefferson shall be President?
From Time Magazine Archive
They chuse three out of the twelve every Year, who with one of the four of the last376 Year, that continues in Office, have the Direction of Affairs.
If I was to be resolute in my determination to leave London, I must go by myself and, notwithstanding such a circumstance might accord with his wishes, I do not chuse to begin the separation.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
How the people resisted also the transportation of Ambrose, by the command of Valentinian the emperor; and chused rather to lose their lives, than to suffer their pastor to be taken away by the soldiers.
From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
The suitors had na your wit, my manny, or maybe they had na a penny to toss, sae ane chused the gowd, ane the siller; but they got an awfu' affront.
From Christie Johnstone by Charles Reade
The Constitution’s Article II gives Congress the authority to enact laws to “determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes.”
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2022
But the rest of that portion of Section 4 reads “but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
Be it as it will, I flatter myself into a beleif of the Latter, chusing rather to be very angry with you for your neglect of me, than sincerely afflicted for your want of health.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
I have determined, since we parted, to bid adieu to England; chusing rather to forsake my country, than to owe my freedom in it to the means we talked of.
From The Gamester (1753) by Charles H. Peake
Why drives he not his consort from his bed, “Calistho placing there;—for sire-in-law “The wolf Lycaön chusing?
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
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