Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Choose \Choose\, v. i.
   1. To make a selection; to decide.

            They had only to choose between implicit obedience
            and open rebellion.                   --Prescott.

   2. To do otherwise. ``Can I choose but smile?'' --Pope.

   {Can not choose but}, must necessarily.

            Thou canst not choose but know who I am. --Shak.