inchoationn.
/ɪnkəʊˈeɪʃən/ a. Beginning, commencement; origination; initial or early stage.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun]
inchoation1530
stirring1532
energy1585
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]
ordeOE
thresholdeOE
frumthc950
anginOE
frumeOE
worthOE
beginninga1225
springc1225
springc1225
commencementc1250
ginninga1300
comsingc1325
entryc1330
aginning1340
alphac1384
incomea1400
formec1400
ingressc1420
birtha1425
principlea1449
comsementa1450
resultancec1450
inition1463
inceptiona1483
entering1526
originala1529
inchoation1530
opening1531
starting1541
principium1550
entrance1553
onset1561
rise1589
begin1590
ingate1591
overture1595
budding1601
initiationa1607
starting off1616
dawninga1631
dawn1633
impriminga1639
start1644
fall1647
initial1656
outset1664
outsettinga1698
going off1714
offsetting1782
offset1791
commence1794
aurora1806
incipiency1817
set-out1821
set-in1826
throw-off1828
go-off1830
outstart1844
start1857
incipience1864
oncome1865
kick-off1875
off-go1886
off1896
get-go1960
lift-off1967
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
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 403 Whan the tenses of je vas is joyned to an infynityve, he dothe betoken inchoacion.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lvii. 128 But the inchoation of those graces, the consummation whereof dependeth on mysteries ensuing.
1652 T. Whitfield Doctr. Arminians 88 The life of Grace is an inchoation of the life of glory.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 216 The inchoation of virtue, wherein she is in her embryo state.
1885 H. Taylor Autobiogr. I. xiv. 226 The members were to be, at the inchoation of the bodies, named by the Crown.
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a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. viii. §3. 284 The præparatiues vnto it: or rather indeed the inchoations of it.
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness viii. v. 378 Having..some more weak inchoations of the life of Righteousness.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [noun] > affix > prefix
preposition1565
prefix1646
inchoationa1661
preformant1731
preformative1799
inseparable preposition1820
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cornw. 197 By Tre, Pol, and Pen, You shall know the Cornishmen..Some adde to these a fourth inchoation, viz. Car (which I guess to signify a rock).
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