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Choise vs Hoise - What's the difference?

choise | hoise |

As a noun choise

is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As a verb hoise is

to hoist.

choise

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1845, author=Mrs. Thomson, title=Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745., chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Since this then is plainly the case, there can be no choise in dying honourably in the field for so just a cause, or leving to see the ruin and intire destruction of our country, our King, and our friends and relations. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1652, author=Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, title=Chocolate= or, An Indian Drinke, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=And therefore my desire is, to take this paines, for the pleasure, and profit of the publicke; endeavouring to accommodate it to the content of all, according to the variety of those things, wherewith it may be mixt; that so every man may make choise of that, which shal be most agreeable to his disposition. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1602, author=William Shakespeare, title=The Merry Wives of Windsor, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Tis not vnknown to you, The feruent loue I'' beare to young ''Anne Page'', And mutally her loue againe to mee: But her father still against her choise , Doth seeke to marrie her to foolish ''Slender'', 10 And in a robe of white this night disguised, Wherein fat ''Falstaffe'' had a mightie scare, Must ''Slender'' take her and carrie her to ''Catlen , And there vnknowne to any, marrie her. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1592, author=Philippe de Mornay, title=A Discourse of Life and Death, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Behold him now, according to his wish, at libertie: in that age, wherein Hercules had the choise , to take the way of vertue or of vice, reason or passion for his guide, and of these two must take one. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1504, author=Nicholas Udall, title=Roister Doister, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Ye shall haue choise of a thousande as good as shee, And ye must pardon hir, it is for lacke of witte. }}

    hoise

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete except in dialects or after Shakespeare) to hoist
  • The scientist used the lever to hoise the cage.
  • (obsolete): to hoist, be raised
  • Derived terms

    * hoist with one's own petard