choate

choate
choate "finished, complete," mistaken back formation from INCHOATE (Cf. inchoate) (q.v.) as though that word contained in- "not." First attested 1878 in letter from O.W. Holmes lamenting barbarisms in legal case writing (he said he found choate in a California report).

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