inchoative

[ in-koh-uh-tiv ]

adjective

1. inceptive.

noun

1. an inceptive.

Other Words From

• unin·choa·tive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of inchoative¹

1520–30; < Late Latin inchoātīvum ( verbum ) inceptive (verb). See inchoate, -ive

Example Sentences

Interpreters will tell us of a threefold day, wherein this prophecy or promise is to be fulfilled; that is, the literal or inchoative, evangelical or spiritual, universal or perfect day.

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In both these ways virtue is natural to man inchoatively.

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Used to form intransitive and inchoative verbs of the third conj.

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