chuse

English

Verb

chuse (third-person singular simple present chuses, present participle chusing, simple past and past participle chused)

1. Obsolete spelling of choose.
   • Hume, Davide, 'A Treatise of Human Nature: Book II:

     Secondly, When in exerting any passion in action, we chuse means insufficient for the design'd end, and deceive ourselves in our judgment of causes and effects.

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, C:XVII

     But if a little Exerciſe you chuſe,

     Some Zeſt for Eaſe, 'tis not forbidden here.