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choate
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"finished, complete," mistaken back-formation from inchoate (q.v.) as though that word contained in- "not." First attested 1878 in letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes lamenting barbarisms in legal case writing (he said he found choate in a California report).
Wiktionary
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Choate may refer to:
- Choate (law), a legal term
- Choate (surname)
"Choate", as used in American law, means "completed or perfected in and of itself", or "perfected, complete, or certain". It is a controversial word due to its etymology as a back-formation from the old and well-established word inchoate that dates from 1534, meaning "in process of formation". Because the prefix "in-", meaning "not", frequently is used to create antonyms, superficially the relationship of the two words seems to make sense, however, the Latin origin of "inchoate", the verb incohare, begins with a different use of the prefix "in-", wherein the prefix denotes "within". Hence, "inchoate" was not derived from "choate", but the reverse has occurred with apparent misunderstanding of the Latin source, leading to its being challenged as an incongruent word.
Choate is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Anne Hyde Choate (1886-1967), early Girl Scout leader
- Charles Edward Choate, American architect
- Clyde L. Choate (1920-2001), American politician
- Don Choate (born 1938), former American professional baseball player
- Emett Clay Choate (1891-1974), American lawyer
- George Cheyne Shattuck Choate (1827–1896), American physician
- Jeff Choate, American football head coach for the Montana State Bobcats
- Joseph Hodges Choate (1832–1917), American lawyer and politician
- Joseph H. Choate, Jr. (1876–1968), American lawyer
- Mark Choate, history professor at Brigham Young University
- Matthew Choate, legislator in the Vermont senate
- Nathaniel Choate (1899-1965), American painter and sculptor
- Pat Choate (born 1941), American economist and politician
- Putt Choate (born 1956), former linebacker in the NFL
- Randy Choate (born 1975), American baseball pitcher
- Robert B. Choate, Jr. (1924-2009), American businessman and political activist
- Rufus Choate (1799–1859), American lawyer and orator
- Tim Choate (1954–2004), American actor
- William Gardner Choate (1830-1920), United States federal judge
Usage examples of "choate".
From out in the quad the guard bugle sounded Drill Call imperatively and Chief Choate got up from the bunk, looking at Prew blankly searchingly.
Read the passage in the eulogy on Choate where he describes him arming himself in the entire panoply of his gorgeous rhetoric--and you will get some far-away conception of the power of this magician.
The following day one of the attorneys complained, and Judge Choate conducted an evidentiary hearing in open court.
Old Ike concluded, glaring at Prew shortly, looking accusingly at Choate lying back relaxing.
Roger Minott Sherman was unquestionably the ablest lawyer in New England who never obtained distinction in political life, and, with the exception of Daniel Webster and Jeremiah Mason and Rufus Choate, the ablest New England ever produced.
Shining One with the seven orbs of light which are the channels between it and the sentience we sought to make articulate, the portals through which flow its currents and so flowing, become choate, vocal, self-realizant within our child.
I have degrees from the Choate School, Harvard, and Harvard Medical School.
Brahmin aristocrat by heritage, and an inconsequential Choate, of all things.
The names, the triple names, sanctified by time, girls named Rowan and Choate and Palmer, boys named Amory and McGeorge and Harcourt.
In certain recent crises the thought of losing him produced something like a panic in the English mind, justifying in regard to him, the hyperbole of Choate upon the death of Webster, that the sailor on the distant sea would feel less safe-- as if a protecting providence had been withdrawn from the world.
Choate, 61) A United Nations agency has used a weighted average life for aluminum products of twenty years (Id.