inchoateadj.n.

Brit.

/ɪnˈkəʊət/,

/ɪnˈkəʊeɪt/,

/ˈɪnkəʊət/,

/ˈɪnkəʊeɪt/,

/ɪŋˈkəʊət/,

/ɪŋˈkəʊeɪt/,

/ˈɪŋkəʊət/,

/ˈɪŋkəʊeɪt/, U.S.

/ɪnˈkoʊət/,

/ˈɪnkəˌweɪt/,

/ɪŋˈkoʊət/,

/ˈɪŋkəˌweɪt/

Etymology: < Latin inchoātus (more correctly incohātus), past participle of inchoāre (more correctly incohāre) to begin.

a. Just begun, incipient; in an initial or early stage; hence elementary, imperfect, undeveloped, immature.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [adjective] > (just) begun

inchoate1534

inchoateda1631

inchoativea1631

inchoanta1876

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature

green?a1300

rawa1398

indigest1398

unmatured?a1425

unripea1500

unseasonable1515

unbuilded1519

inchoate1534

unripened1561

uncivil1572

unmellowed1573

unmanured1577

unblown1587

ungrown1593

unpolished1594

rudimental1597

rude1600

unsalted1602

unseasoned1602

unlicked1612

embryon1613

unbakeda1616

unbloweda1616

unfledged1615

unmellow1615

sappya1627

embryous1628

unconcocteda1631

unkneaded1633

immature1635

sucking1648

vacuous1651

embryo1659

unelaborate1663

unmature1673

unformed1689

undeveloped1736

infantile1772

uncultivated1796

unelaborated1817

fetal1820

embryotic1823

embryonic1825

embryonary1833

sophomoric1837

seedling1843

rudimentary1851

unwrought1869

juvenescent1875

vealy1890

under-developed1892

1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces iii. sig. P.7 No paynter..shulde fynysshe that parte of Venus, whiche inchoat and begon Apelles left of imperfyte.

1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. H4 It was a Church inchoate, beginning, not perfect.

a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 109 His heavenly grace, which is glory inchoate, He imparteth to His Saints.

a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 409 You are in happy State; Our Bliss is only Inchoate.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xv. 436 If a boy under fourteen, or a girl under twelve years of age, marries, this marriage is only inchoate and imperfect.

1821 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 326/1 Many inchoate acts are innocent, the consummation of which is a capital offence.

1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 473 The position I have ventured to maintain..as to the inchoate, imperfect, and transitional work of John.

1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. ii. 181 All was as yet in an inchoate state.

b. as n. A beginning, rudiment. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s)

beginningc1200

calendsc1374

crepusculum1398

childhood1549

infancy1555

rudiments1566

primordium1577

primitives1602

inchoation1652

inceptive1728

incunabula1824

baby step1825

inchoate1845

incipiency1858

incipience1864

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. vi. 135 The drudgery of teaching and learning the barest inchoates of knowledge.

Draft additions 1993

2. [Often regarded as unetymologically developed through confusion with chaotic adj. 1, though perhaps better explained as a regular development from ‘undeveloped’ to ‘lacking structure’.] Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective]

troublec1374

misorderlya1568

unorderly1578

luxate1597

incomposed1608

methodless1609

tumultuary1609

unordered1621

disorderly1632

higgledy-piggledy1676

rantum-scantum1695

throughother1720

rough and tumble1818

ramshackle1820

skimble-skamble1826

ahoo1828

disordinate1840

disorganic1841

ramshackly1883

rantum-scootum1885

tumultuarious1895

ragtime1917

inchoate1922

higgledya1953

shambolic1970

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [adjective] > incoherent

riota1400

uncoherent1588

incoherent1632

inchoate1922

1922 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape i. 1 The room is crowded with men, shouting, cursing, laughing, singing—a confused, inchoate uproar swelling into a sort of unity, a meaning.

1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Mar. 186/1 Out of the inchoate welter of recent published poetry, in magazines and books, emerges an organized body of 344 poems by 102 poets who have become known since 1945.

1989 Los Angeles Times 13 Aug. (Bk. Review section) 7/1 Grass's structural originality is empowered by a desire to create coherence out of his narrative's own inchoate responses.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

inchoatev.

Brit.

/ˈɪnkəʊeɪt/,

/ˈɪŋkəʊeɪt/, U.S.

/ˈɪnkəˌweɪt/,

/ˈɪŋkəˌweɪt/

Etymology: < participial stem of Latin inchoāre (prop. incohāre ) to begin: see inchoate adj.

a. transitive. To begin, commence, initiate, take the first steps in.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)]

beginc1175

baptizec1384

to set a (on) broachc1440

open1471

to set abroachc1475

entame1477

to set afloat1559

initiate1604

first1607

principiate1613

to set afoot or on foot1615

unclap1621

inchoatea1631

flush1633

to set on1638

principatec1650

rudiment1654

auspicate1660

embryonate1666

to strike up1711

start1723

institutea1797

float1833

spark1912

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. iv. §1 Inchoated, increased, grown great, and perfected.

1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 150/2 The great soul of the World does at least inchoate, and rudely delineate the fabrick of our body at first.

1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II c. 43 §28 That royal burgh..which shall lie nearest to the place where such poynding was inchoated.

1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 60 How he..Conceives and inchoates the argument.

b. To cause to begin, originate, bring about.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)]

sow971

mothera1425

author1598

origin1640

to be at the bottom of1650

principle1650

originate1653

inchoate1654

originize1657

1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 236 Any moral..inchoating our Justification.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxiii. 472 To inchoate the formation of an eye.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 227 Nor will it inchoate their ruin to expend a few rupees more than an accurate calculation of comforts might allow.

2. intransitive. To commence, make a beginning.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin [verb (intransitive)]

beginc1000

comsea1225

gin?c1225

becomsea1375

commencec1380

to take beginninga1400

enterc1425

to start up1568

initiatea1618

inchoate1654

dawn1716

to take in1845

to take up1846

to set in1848

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)]

beginc1000

onginOE

aginOE

ginc1175

to go tillc1175

to take onc1175

comsea1225

fanga1225

to go toc1275

i-ginc1275

commencec1320

to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400

to lay to one's hand(sc1405

to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410

to set toc1425

standa1450

to make to1563

to fall to it1570

to start out1574

to fall to1577

to run upon ——1581

to break off1591

start1607

to set in1608

to set to one's hands1611

to put toa1616

to fall ona1625

in1633

to fall aboard1642

auspicatea1670

to set out1693

to enter (into) the fray1698

open1708

to start in1737

inchoate1767

to set off1774

go1780

start1785

to on with1843

to kick off1857

to start in on1859

to steam up1860

to push off1909

to cut loose1923

to get (also put) the show on the road1941

to get one's arse in gear1948

1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. vii. 75 At the Worlds origin this Book inchoats.

1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 8 I shall inchoate with one of it's most delicious morsels of eloquence.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	inchoate
释义	inchoateadj.n. Brit. /ɪnˈkəʊət/, /ɪnˈkəʊeɪt/, /ˈɪnkəʊət/, /ˈɪnkəʊeɪt/, /ɪŋˈkəʊət/, /ɪŋˈkəʊeɪt/, /ˈɪŋkəʊət/, /ˈɪŋkəʊeɪt/, U.S. /ɪnˈkoʊət/, /ˈɪnkəˌweɪt/, /ɪŋˈkoʊət/, /ˈɪŋkəˌweɪt/ Etymology: < Latin inchoātus (more correctly incohātus), past participle of inchoāre (more correctly incohāre) to begin. a. Just begun, incipient; in an initial or early stage; hence elementary, imperfect, undeveloped, immature. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [adjective] > (just) begun inchoate1534 inchoateda1631 inchoativea1631 inchoanta1876 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature green?a1300 rawa1398 indigest1398 unmatured?a1425 unripea1500 unseasonable1515 unbuilded1519 inchoate1534 unripened1561 uncivil1572 unmellowed1573 unmanured1577 unblown1587 ungrown1593 unpolished1594 rudimental1597 rude1600 unsalted1602 unseasoned1602 unlicked1612 embryon1613 unbakeda1616 unbloweda1616 unfledged1615 unmellow1615 sappya1627 embryous1628 unconcocteda1631 unkneaded1633 immature1635 sucking1648 vacuous1651 embryo1659 unelaborate1663 unmature1673 unformed1689 undeveloped1736 infantile1772 uncultivated1796 unelaborated1817 fetal1820 embryotic1823 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 sophomoric1837 seedling1843 rudimentary1851 unwrought1869 juvenescent1875 vealy1890 under-developed1892 1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces iii. sig. P.7 No paynter..shulde fynysshe that parte of Venus, whiche inchoat and begon Apelles left of imperfyte. 1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. H4 It was a Church inchoate, beginning, not perfect. a1626 L. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 109 His heavenly grace, which is glory inchoate, He imparteth to His Saints. a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 409 You are in happy State; Our Bliss is only Inchoate. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xv. 436 If a boy under fourteen, or a girl under twelve years of age, marries, this marriage is only inchoate and imperfect. 1821 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 326/1 Many inchoate acts are innocent, the consummation of which is a capital offence. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 473 The position I have ventured to maintain..as to the inchoate, imperfect, and transitional work of John. 1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. ii. 181 All was as yet in an inchoate state. b. as n. A beginning, rudiment. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) beginningc1200 calendsc1374 crepusculum1398 childhood1549 infancy1555 rudiments1566 primordium1577 primitives1602 inchoation1652 inceptive1728 incunabula1824 baby step1825 inchoate1845 incipiency1858 incipience1864 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. vi. 135 The drudgery of teaching and learning the barest inchoates of knowledge. Draft additions 1993 2. [Often regarded as unetymologically developed through confusion with chaotic adj. 1, though perhaps better explained as a regular development from ‘undeveloped’ to ‘lacking structure’.] Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] troublec1374 misorderlya1568 unorderly1578 luxate1597 incomposed1608 methodless1609 tumultuary1609 unordered1621 disorderly1632 higgledy-piggledy1676 rantum-scantum1695 throughother1720 rough and tumble1818 ramshackle1820 skimble-skamble1826 ahoo1828 disordinate1840 disorganic1841 ramshackly1883 rantum-scootum1885 tumultuarious1895 ragtime1917 inchoate1922 higgledya1953 shambolic1970 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [adjective] > incoherent riota1400 uncoherent1588 incoherent1632 inchoate1922 1922 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape i. 1 The room is crowded with men, shouting, cursing, laughing, singing—a confused, inchoate uproar swelling into a sort of unity, a meaning. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Mar. 186/1 Out of the inchoate welter of recent published poetry, in magazines and books, emerges an organized body of 344 poems by 102 poets who have become known since 1945. 1989 Los Angeles Times 13 Aug. (Bk. Review section) 7/1 Grass's structural originality is empowered by a desire to create coherence out of his narrative's own inchoate responses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). inchoatev. Brit. /ˈɪnkəʊeɪt/, /ˈɪŋkəʊeɪt/, U.S. /ˈɪnkəˌweɪt/, /ˈɪŋkəˌweɪt/ Etymology: < participial stem of Latin inchoāre (prop. incohāre ) to begin: see inchoate adj. 1. a. transitive. To begin, commence, initiate, take the first steps in. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)] beginc1175 baptizec1384 to set a (on) broachc1440 open1471 to set abroachc1475 entame1477 to set afloat1559 initiate1604 first1607 principiate1613 to set afoot or on foot1615 unclap1621 inchoatea1631 flush1633 to set on1638 principatec1650 rudiment1654 auspicate1660 embryonate1666 to strike up1711 start1723 institutea1797 float1833 spark1912 a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. iv. §1 Inchoated, increased, grown great, and perfected. 1647 H. More Philos. Poems Notes 150/2 The great soul of the World does at least inchoate, and rudely delineate the fabrick of our body at first. 1746–7 Act 20 Geo. II c. 43 §28 That royal burgh..which shall lie nearest to the place where such poynding was inchoated. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. i. 60 How he..Conceives and inchoates the argument. b. To cause to begin, originate, bring about. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate or be a source of [verb (transitive)] sow971 mothera1425 author1598 origin1640 to be at the bottom of1650 principle1650 originate1653 inchoate1654 originize1657 1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 236 Any moral..inchoating our Justification. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxiii. 472 To inchoate the formation of an eye. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 227 Nor will it inchoate their ruin to expend a few rupees more than an accurate calculation of comforts might allow. 2. intransitive. To commence, make a beginning. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin [verb (intransitive)] beginc1000 comsea1225 gin?c1225 becomsea1375 commencec1380 to take beginninga1400 enterc1425 to start up1568 initiatea1618 inchoate1654 dawn1716 to take in1845 to take up1846 to set in1848 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin action or activity [verb (intransitive)] beginc1000 onginOE aginOE ginc1175 to go tillc1175 to take onc1175 comsea1225 fanga1225 to go toc1275 i-ginc1275 commencec1320 to get (also get down, go, go adown, set, set down) to workc1400 to lay to one's hand(sc1405 to put to one's hand (also hands)c1410 to set toc1425 standa1450 to make to1563 to fall to it1570 to start out1574 to fall to1577 to run upon ——1581 to break off1591 start1607 to set in1608 to set to one's hands1611 to put toa1616 to fall ona1625 in1633 to fall aboard1642 auspicatea1670 to set out1693 to enter (into) the fray1698 open1708 to start in1737 inchoate1767 to set off1774 go1780 start1785 to on with1843 to kick off1857 to start in on1859 to steam up1860 to push off1909 to cut loose1923 to get (also put) the show on the road1941 to get one's arse in gear1948 1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. vii. 75 At the Worlds origin this Book inchoats. 1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 8 I shall inchoate with one of it's most delicious morsels of eloquence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1534v.a1631
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