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in·cho·ate    Audio Help   [in-koh-it, -eyt or, especially Brit., in-koh-eyt] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.not yet completed or fully developed; rudimentary.
2.just begun; incipient.
3.not organized; lacking order: an inchoate mass of ideas on the subject.

[Origin: 1525–35; < L inchoātus, var. of incohātus ptp. of incohāre to begin, start work on, perh. equiv. to in- -in-2 + coh(um) hollow of a yoke into which the pole is fitted + -ātus -ate1]

in·cho·ate·ly, adverb
in·cho·ate·ness, noun
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in·cho·ate    Audio Help   (ĭn-kō'ĭt)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. In an initial or early stage; incipient.
  2. Imperfectly formed or developed: a vague, inchoate idea.


[Latin inchoātus, past participle of inchoāre, to begin, alteration of incohāre : in-, in; see in-2 + cohum, strap from yoke to harness.]

in·cho'ate·ly adv., in·cho'ate·ness n.
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inchoate 
1534, from L. inchoatus, pp. of inchoare, alteration of incohare "to begin," originally "to hitch up," from in- "on" + cohum "strap fastened to the oxen's yoke."

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inchoate

adjective
only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" [syn: incipient

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Inchoate

In"cho*ate\, a. [L. inchoatus, better incohatus, p. p. of incohare to begin.] Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv.

Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. --Raleigh.
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Inchoate

In"cho*ate\, v. t. To begin. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
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