Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Inchoate

Inchoate , adjective

[Latin inchoatus, better incohatus, past participle of incohare to begin.]

Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.
Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. — Raleigh

Inchoate , transitive verb

To begin. [Obsolete] — Dr. H. More