| 单词 |
inchoation |
| 释义 |
inchoation|ɪnkəʊˈeɪʃən|
Also 7 incohation.
[ad. late L. inchoātiōn-em (prop. incohātiōn-em) (Augustine), n. of action from inchoāre (incohāre) to begin.]
Beginning, commencement; origination; initial or early stage.
1530Palsgr. 403 Whan the tenses of je vas is joyned to an infynityve, he dothe betoken inchoacion. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lvii. §6 But the inchoation of those graces, the consummation whereof dependeth on mysteries ensuing. 1652T. Whitfield Doctr. Armin. 88 The life of Grace is an inchoation of the life of glory. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 215 An inchoation of virtue, or, as we may call it, the embryo or seedling not yet arrived to perfection. 1885Sir H. Taylor Autobiog. I. xiv. 226 The members were to be, at the inchoation of the bodies, named by the Crown.
†b. pl. First steps, beginnings. Obs.
a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. viii. §3 (1622) 284 The præparatiues vnto it: or rather indeed the inchoations of it. 1660H. More Myst. Godl. viii. v. 378 Having..some more weak inchoations of the life of Righteousness.
†c. The initial element of a word; a prefix. Obs.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Cornwall i. (1662) 197 By Tre, Pol, and Pen,—You shall know the Cornishmen:..Some adde to these a fourth inchoation, viz. Car (which I guess to signify a rock). |
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