chose

CEFRA1

/t͡ʃəʊz/

verb · noun

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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I expect you might have chose a somewhat larger fish, but I'll try an' make it do.
From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
Since this work is about Vilna's Jewish community, I have chose the familiar spelling Vilna, which closely approximates Jews' preferred name for their city.

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From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page...
I expect you might have chose a somewhat larger fish, but I'll try an' make it do.
1896, Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Houghton Mifflin, page 66
Since this work is about Vilna's Jewish community, I have chose the familiar spelling Vilna, which closely approximates Jews' preferred name for their city.
2010, Andrew Noble Koss, World War I and the Remaking of Jewish Vilna, Stanford University Press, page x

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From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.