choateadj.

/ˈkəʊət/

An erroneous word, framed to mean ‘finished’, ‘complete’, as if the in- of inchoate were the Latin negative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective]

fulleOE

plenara1325

perfectc1350

completec1380

heala1399

plenary?a1425

absolute1531

explete1534

well-accomplished1568

quit1583

orbeda1657

orbicular1673

saturate1682

rounded1746

broad-blown1855

plene1867

choate1878

ten tenth1948

1878 O. W. Holmes Let. 9 Dec. in Pollock-Holmes Lett. (1942) I. 11 Several of the State Courts have left equally amusing slips in the Reports... I have read in a California volume that the wife on marriage acquires an inchoate right of dower which by the death of the husband becomes choate.

1902 W. B. Richmond in St. George V. 288 He [sc. Ruskin] seemed to be under the spell of a vision which he would make choate.

1929 W. S. Churchill in Times 13 Feb. 16/1 How could the peoples know?.. What choate and integral conviction could they form?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

单词	choate
释义	choateadj. /ˈkəʊət/ An erroneous word, framed to mean ‘finished’, ‘complete’, as if the in- of inchoate were the Latin negative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] fulleOE plenara1325 perfectc1350 completec1380 heala1399 plenary?a1425 absolute1531 explete1534 well-accomplished1568 quit1583 orbeda1657 orbicular1673 saturate1682 rounded1746 broad-blown1855 plene1867 choate1878 ten tenth1948 1878 O. W. Holmes Let. 9 Dec. in Pollock-Holmes Lett. (1942) I. 11 Several of the State Courts have left equally amusing slips in the Reports... I have read in a California volume that the wife on marriage acquires an inchoate right of dower which by the death of the husband becomes choate. 1902 W. B. Richmond in St. George V. 288 He [sc. Ruskin] seemed to be under the spell of a vision which he would make choate. 1929 W. S. Churchill in Times 13 Feb. 16/1 How could the peoples know?.. What choate and integral conviction could they form? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.1878
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