chuse

Etymology

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of choose
   Rather therfore to chuſe me thinketh wiſdome. 1557, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Tottel's Miscellany, Whether libertie by losse of life, or life in prison and thraldome be to be preferred, page 298
   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. 1739, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature: Book II
   Your maſter, young man, may a laſs adore--- / For his laſs, ’tis confeſt, / He has choſen the beſt; / But he chuſes a woeful ambaſſador! 1785, George Colman the Younger], Songs, Duetts, Trios, &c. N Turk and No Turk; a Musical Comedy. Performed at the Theatre-Royal in the Hay-Market., London: […] T. Cadell,[…], page 21
   But if the Almighty choſe to eſtabliſh his religion by miracles, he chuſes to carry it on by means. 1808, Hannah More], chapter XXI, in Cœlebs in Search of a Wife. Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals., volume I, London: […] T. Cadell and W. Davies,[…], page 299