Inchoation

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inchoation \In`cho*a"tion\, n. [L. inchoatio, incohatio.]
     Act of beginning; commencement; inception.
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           The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts,
           would be looked on as the first inchoation of them.


                                                    --Sir M. Hale.
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           It is now in actual progress, from the rudest
           inchoation to the most elaborate finishing. --I.
                                                    Taylor.
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