Choate

[choht]

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noun

Joseph Hodges,1832–1917, U.S. lawyer and diplomat.

Rufus,1799–1859, U.S. lawyer, orator, and statesman.

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Related Words for choate

indivisible, elemental, simple, flawless, full, perfect, unified, integrated, entire, detailed, complete, comprehensive, maximum, generous, broad, extensive, exhaustive, whole, adequate, absolute

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Contemporary Examples of choate

So we have a graduate of Choate or Beverly Hills High who attends Wharton, and goes to work for, say, Goldman Sachs.
Trustafarians Want to Tell You How to Live
Joel Kotkin
October 31, 2014
One of my favorite teachers at Choate, Mr. Yankus, had a similar warning against using the verb “to be” in any essay.
Anthony Grafton: How I Write
Noah Charney
July 17, 2013
But embarrassed administrators at Choate have been in lockdown on disclosing details.
The Prep School Facebook Scandal
Lynnley Browning
November 22, 2010
Don't generalize all Choate students to be in the same category as those girls.
The Prep School Facebook Scandal
Lynnley Browning
November 22, 2010

Historical Examples of choate

He was seeing Choate in the new Addington as Choate presented it.
The Prisoner
Alice Brown
Choate had a tremendous idea of the obligations of what he called love.
The Prisoner
Alice Brown
Choate sat looking at the landscape which no longer wavered.
The Prisoner
Alice Brown
Then it seemed to her that Choate did a thing unsurpassed in splendour.
The Prisoner
Alice Brown
Choate and I know him, better than you or any other woman can in a thousand years.
The Prisoner
Alice Brown

Word Origin and History for choate

adj.

"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).