Inchoation


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In`cho`a´tion


n. 1. Act of beginning; commencement; inception.
The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them.
- Sir M. Hale.
It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate finishing.
- I. Taylor.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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