英和和英

形容詞

choise (comparative choiser, superlative choisest)

1. Obsolete spelling of choice
   • c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in Mary Sidney, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, sonnet 55, page 537:

     Muſes, I oft inuoked your holy ayde, / With choiſeſt flowers my ſpeech to engarland ſo; / That it deſpiſde in true but naked ſhew, / Might winne ſome grace in your ſweet grace arraid.

   • [1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London: […] Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC, page 3:

     I doubt not but ye ſhall have more adoe to drive out dulleſt and lazieſt youth, our ſtocks and ſtubbs from the infinite deſire of ſuch a happy nurture, then we have now to hale and drag our choiſeſt and hopefulleſt wits to that aſinine feaſt of ſowthiſtles and brambles which is commonly ſet before them, as all the food and entertainment of their tendereſt and moſt docible age.

   • 1655, R[ichard] Younge, Armour of Proof, or A Soveraign Antidote, Against the Contagion of Evil Company. […], second part, London: […] J. M. for James Crump, […], §. 28, page 11:

     When Cato Utican, in vacation times, and at his beſt leaſure, went to recreate himſelf in the country, he uſed to cary with him the beſt Philoſophers, and choiſeſt bookes.

   • 1664, John Heydon, Theomagia, or The Temple of Wisdome. […], London: […] T. M. for Henry Brome […], and for Tho. Rooks […], page 141:

     But why then have ſuch an infinite number of other fooleries been taken into conſideration, and thought a fit ſubject for their learned Pens, which are a thouſand times more Ridiculous in appearance, then this is? whereas, on the contrary, there is no Aſtrologer, to whom this Science is not neceſſary; nor any ſearcher into the choiſer pieces of Theological antiquity, to whom in like manner it may not be uſeful; if at leaſt it be true.