selectedadj.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. K6^v For we haue here the chiefe selected men Of twenty seuerall kingdomes at the least.

1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 132 Sometimes (for change of pleasure) he would read Selected stories, whilst her eares would feed Vpon his lips.

1729 T. Cooke Tales 14 He thrice twelve gallant Youths, of high Renown, Selected Souls, of all the Land the Flowr, Appointed to adorn the bridal Hour.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 162 For an instant this man quitted the prisoner, whom he consigned to a selected guard.

1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind x. 273 I give some selected cases of the Argument from similar customs.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I2 To keepe still the Lawe of breuitie, by vsing the most eminent and selected examples. View more context for this quotation

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. ii, in Wks. I. 9 To his most selected [1601 ed. I. ii. 123, elected] friend, master Edward Kno'well.

1655 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans (ed. 2) ii. 62 The first true worship of the worlds great King From private and selected hearts did spring.

1637 T. Heywood True Descr. Royall Ship (1638) 48 All of them in their severall faculties being knowne to bee the prime Workmen of the Kingdome, selectedly imploy'd in this Service.