| 释义 |
choate, a.|ˈkəʊət|
An erroneous word, framed to mean ‘finished’, ‘complete’, as if the in- of inchoate were the L. negative.
1878O. 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. 1902W. B. Richmond in Saint George V. 288 He [sc. Ruskin] seemed to be under the spell of a vision which he would make choate. 1929W. S. Churchill in Times 13 Feb. 16/1 How could the peoples know?.. What choate and integral conviction could they form? |