inchoate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IN'CHOATE, verb transitive [Latin inchoo.] To begin. [Little used.] IN'CHOATE, adjective Begun; commenced. It is neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate
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