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fix4y-eight miles weft-north-weft of Mogilov. Lat. 48. 
51. N. Ion. 44. 45. E. Ferro. ' 
CHODE, [the old preterite from chide.] —And Jacob 
Was wroth, and chode with Laban. Genefis. 
CHODIVO'JA, a town of Walachia: thirty-two miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Buchoreft. 
CHODOROS'LAU, a town of Poland, in the palati- . 
nate of Lemberg : twenty miles fouth-eaft of Lemberg. 
CHCE'NIX, f Gr.] An ancient dry meafure, 
containing the 48th part of a niedimnus, or fix bulhels. 
CHCE'RILUS, a tragic poet of Athens, who wrote 150 
tragedies, of which thirteen obtained the prize. An liif- 
torian of Samos. Two other poets, one of whom was 
very intimate with Herodotus. He wrote a poem on the 
viftory which the Athenians had obtained over Xerxes, 
and, on account of the excellence of the compofition, he 
received a piece of gold for each verfe from the Athe¬ 
nians, and was publicly ranked with Homer as a poet. 
The other was one of Alexander’s flatterers and friends. 
It is faid the prince prornifed him as many pieces of gold 
as there ftiould be good verles in la is poetry, and as many 
flaps on the forehead as there were bad; and, in confe- 
quence of this, fcarce fix of his verfes in each poem were 
entitled to gold, while the reft were rewarded with the 
caftigation. Plutarch. Horace. 
CHO'HAN, a circar of Hindooftan, in the country of 
Alla-Habad. 
CHOH'REN, or Kohren, a town of Germany, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony, and territory of Leiplic: twenty 
miles fouth-louth eaft of Leipfic. 
CHOICE, f. [choix, Fr.] The aft ofchoofing; deter¬ 
mination between different things propofed ; eleftion : 
Gentle or fharp, according to thy choice, 
To laugh at follies, or to lalh at vice. Dryden. 
The power of chooling; eleftion.— Choice there is not, 
tinlels the thing which we take be fo in our power, 
ttiat we might have refufed it. If fire confume the Itable, 
it choofeth not lb to do, becaufe the nature thereof is 
fuch that it can do no other. Hooker. —Care in choofing; 
curiofity of dillinftion.—Julius Ctelar did write a collec¬ 
tion of apophthegms: it is pity his book is loft; fori 
imagine they were collected with judgment and choice . 
Bacon. —The thing chofen ; the tiling taken, or approved, 
in preference to others : 
Your choice is not fo rich in birth as beauty; 
That you might well enjoy her. Shakefpeare. 
The belt part of any thing, that is more properly the ob- 
jeft of choice.—Thou art a mighty prince : in the choice 
of our fepulchres bury thy dead. Genef.s. —Several things 
propofed at once, as objefts of judgment and eleftion : 
A braver choice of dauntlefs fpirits 
Did never float upon the fweliing tide. Shakefpeare. 
To make CHOICE of. To choofe ; to take from feveral 
things propofed : 
Wifdom of what herfelf approves 7n0d.es choice, 
Nor is led captive by the common voice. DeTibam. 
CHOICE, adj. \_choifc , Fr.] Seleft; of extraordinary 
value: 
Thus, in a fea of folly tofs’d, 
My choiceji hours of life are loft. Swift. 
Chary; frugal; careful. Ufed of perfons.—He that is 
choice of his time, will alfo be choice of his company, and 
choice of his aftions. Taylor. 
CHOICE'LESS, adj. Without the power of choofing; 
without right of choice; not free. 
CHOICE'LY, ad-v. Curioufly; with exaft choice : 
A band of men, 
Collefted choicely from each county fome. Shakefpeare. 
Valuably; excellently.—It is certain it is' choicely good, 
Walton, 
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CHOICE'NFSS, / Nicety; particular value.—Cafry 
into the (hade fuch auriculas, feedlings, or plants, as.are 
for their choicenefs referved in pots. Eajelyiz. 
CHOIR, f. \chorus, Lat.] An affembly or band of 
fingers : 
They now aflift the choir 
Of angels, who their fongs admire. Waller. 
The fingers in divine worfhip : 
The choir, 
With all the ohoiccft rnufic of the kingdom, 
Together fung Te Deum. Shakefpeare . 
The part of the church where the'chorifters or fingers are 
placed. It was in the time of Conftantine that the choir 
was feparated from the nave. In the twelfth century, 
they began to inclofe it with walls; but the ancient ba- 
luftrades have been fmce rellored, from a view to the 
beauty of architefture. 
CHOI'SEUL (Stephen Francis due de), born in 1719, 
and died in 1785. After having been ambaflador at Vi¬ 
enna, minifter of war, and of the marine, and having had 
the entire confidence of Louis XV. he was dilgraced, yet 
enjoyed great confequence in his retirement. The late 
king of Pruflia ufed to call him the coachman of Europe. 
To his dexterity in negociation was partly owing the 
peace of 1763. He experienced the common lot of all 
whole talents are remarkably brilliant; much good has 
been faid of him, and much ill. But his bittereft enemies 
could never deny that he had a ftrong underftanding, and 
was diligent in bufinefs; that he pofieffed the art of pene¬ 
trating into the characters of men, and of taking advan¬ 
tage of events. Thofe men of letters and poets of his time, 
who were in his intereft, have painted him in glowing co¬ 
lours, as the molt magnanimous of mankind ; while luch 
as had no lhare in his favours have endeavoured to weaken 
this praife, by eenfuring his adminiltration for the want 
of economy. But, if lie was fometimes lavilh of the 
public money, he certainly was not fparing of his own. 
From whence we may conclude, that generofity was a 
virtue to which he was naturally inclined. 
CHOI'SEUL, a town of France, in the department of 
the Upper Marne : four leagues north-ealt of Langres. 
CHOI'SEUL-BAY, on the north-well coalt of the 
illands of the Arlacides, weft of Port Prallin. The inha¬ 
lants of this bay, like thofe of Port Prallin, have a cufi- 
torn of powdering their hair with lime, which burns it 
and gives it a red appearance. 
CHOI'SI (Francis Timoleon de), dean of the cathedral 
of Bayeux, and one of the forty of the French academy', 
was born at Paris in 1644. In 1685, he was lent with the 
chevalier de Chaumont to the king of Siam, and was or¬ 
dained prieft in the Indies by the apoftolical vicar. He 
wrote a great number of works, in a polite, florid, and 
ealy, ftyle ; the principal of which are, 1. Four Dialogues 
on the Immortality of the Soul, &c. 2. Account of a 
voyage to Siam. 3. An Eccleliaftical Hillory, in 11 vols. 
4to. 4. Life of David, with an Interpretation of the Pfalms. 
5. Life of Solomon, See. He died at Paris in 1724. 
CHOI'SY, a town of France, in the department of the 
Seine and Marne : four leagues north of Previns. 
CHOI'SY-BELLEGARDE, a town of France, in the 
department of the Loiret: four leagues weft of Montargis. 
CHOI'SY-LE-ROY, or Choisy-sur-Seine, a town 
of France, in the department of Paris, and chief place of 
a canton, in the diltrift of Bourg-la-Reine, on the Seine: 
lix miles fouth of Paris. 
To CHOKE, nj. a. [aceocan, Sax. from ceoca, the 
cheek or mouth. According to Minlhew, from Dn; from 
whence, probably, the Spanifh abogar.] To fuffocate; to 
kill by llopping the paffage of refpiration : 
While you thunder’d, clouds of dull did choke 
Contending troops. Waller. 
To ftop up ; to obftruft; to block up a paffage.—They 
are at a continual expence to cleanfe the ports, and keep 
them 
