Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Inchoative

Inchoative (?; 277) , adjective

[Latin inchoativus, incohativus: compare French inchoatif.]

Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb.
An inchoative verb. See Inceptive.
Some inchoative or imperfect rays. — W. Montagu