Hypertext Webster Gateway: "selected"

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

Select \Se*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Selected}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Selecting}.]
To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from
among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best
authors for perusal. ``One peculiar nation to select.''
--Milton.

The pious chief . . . A hundred youths from all his
train selects. --Dryden.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

selected
adj : chosen in preference to another [ant: {unselected}]


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