Definition of "choate" [choate]

• Complete (adjective)

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• "Read it Justice Antonin Scalia recently interrupted a lawyer during a Supreme Court oral argument to chastise him for using the word choate (the opposite of inchoate)."
• "Justice Antonin Scalia recently interrupted a lawyer during a Supreme Court oral argument to chastise him for using the word choate (the opposite of inchoate)."
• "This decade is almost "choate," no matter what 'Nino says!"