chose

Etymology 1

verb

1. simple past of choose
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose
   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. M[acock] for John Starkey[…], →OCLC, lines 165-166, page 10
   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
3. simple past of chuse

Etymology 2

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

noun

1. (law) A thing; personal property.