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
And have not Hiram's Subjects a free Choice To chuse a King by their united Voice?
From Selected Poems (1685-1700) by John Tutchin
If he chuse, he can seek me out.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
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
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
Advice in chusing a Way of getting a Livelihood.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
My general fault has been the folly of chusing my friends for some striking and agreable accomplishment, instead of giving to solid merit the preference which most certainly is its due.
From The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke
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