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Definition of Inchoative

1. Adjective. Beginning to develop. "Inchoative stages"

2. Noun. Aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb.

Definition of Inchoative

1. a. Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb.

Definition of Inchoative

1. Adjective. At the beginning, still in an unformed state. ¹

2. Adjective. (grammar) Aspectually indicating that an action is soon to begin. ¹

3. Adjective. (grammar) Inflected in or relating to the inchoative aspect. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inchoative

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inchoative

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Literary usage of Inchoative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Word Formation in the Roman Sermo Plebeius: An Historical Study of the by Frederic Taber Cooper (1895)
"inchoative VERBS : Of the various classes of derivative verbs, none has gained a more general acceptance in classic Latin than that of the so-called ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1894)
"AN inchoative PARANOIAC.1 BY MARTIN W. BARR, MD, Chief Physician, Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble Minded Children, Elwyn, Delaware County, Pa, ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1894)
"AN inchoative PARANOIAC.1 BY MARTIN W. BARR, MD, Chief Physician, Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble Minded Children, Elwyn, Delaware County, Pa, ..."

4. The French Verb Newly Treated: An Easy, Uniform, and Synthetic Method of Its by Amédée Esclangon (1895)
"The conjugation in /> not inchoative comprises 22 verbs with their compounds. ... Verbs regular only of the 2d conjugation in /r inchoative belong to the ..."

5. A Historical French Grammar by Arsène Darmesteter (1902)
"THE inchoative PARTICLE -iss-.—This conjugation (for the origin of which see pp. 342, 343) is characterized by the interpolation of the syllable -iss- ..."

6. Grammar of the Temne Language by Christian Frederick Schlenker (1864)
"No radical verb terminating in -a takes the inchoative form. ... inchoative verbs are often formed by the verb: won, or: wur, in connection with a noun. ..."

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