Hypertext Webster Gateway: "choicest"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Choice \Choice\, a. [Compar. {Choicer}; superl. {Choicest}.]
1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior;
precious; valuable.

My choicest hours of life are lost. --Swift.

2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; --
used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

3. Selected with care, and due attention to preference;
deliberately chosen.

Choice word measured phrase. --Wordsworth.

Syn: Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare;
chary; careful/

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