Inchoate Definition

ĭn-kōĭt, -āt
adjective
Just begun; in the early stages; incipient; rudimentary.
Webster's New World
Not yet clearly or completely formed or organized; disordered.
Webster's New World
Not yet completed or made effective; pending.
Webster's New World
Commenced but not completed, partially done, generally used in contract law to describe an undertaking which has been agreed upon, but as to which all necessary formalities (for example, signatures on the document) have not been completed.
Webster's New World Law

Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.

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noun

(rare) A beginning, an immature start.

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verb

To begin or start something.

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To cause or bring about.

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To make a start.
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Other Word Forms of Inchoate

Noun

Singular:
inchoate
Plural:
inchoates

Origin of Inchoate

  • Latin inchoātus past participle of inchoāre to begin alteration of incohāre in- in in–2 cohum strap from yoke to harness

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin incohātus (“begun, unfinished”), perfect passive participle of incohō (“begin”).

    From Wiktionary

Inchoate Sentence Examples

  • Thenceforth, till James came to the throne of England, the history of Scotland was but a series of inchoate revolutions, intrigues that led to nothing definite and skirmishes in the war of kirk and state.

  • The " Reception " seemed to me rather inchoate not to say disorderly.

  • The lien remains inchoate until a breach of the charter occurs, when the lien becomes perfected.

  • The liability to contribute is inchoate only when the sacrifice has been made.

  • The study of comparative pathology, yet in an inchoate stage, and of embryology, illuminated and enlarged biological conceptions, both normal and abnormal; and the ens reale subsistens in corpore disappeared for ever - at any rate from physiology and medicine.

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Words Starting With

IININC

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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