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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
A. S. Byatt

Meaning of "inchoate" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INCHOATE

From Latin incohāre to make a beginning, literally: to hitch up, from in-² + cohum yokestrap.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INCHOATE

inchoate  [ɪnˈkəʊeɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INCHOATE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inchoate is a verb and can also act as an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb inchoate in English.

WHAT DOES INCHOATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

inchoate

Inchoate offense

An inchoate offense, inchoate offence, or inchoate crime is a crime of preparing for or seeking to commit another crime. The most common example of an inchoate offense is "attempt". "Inchoate offense" has been defined as: "Conduct deemed criminal without actual harm being done, provided that the harm that would have occurred is one the law tries to prevent."...

Definition of inchoate in the English dictionary

The first definition of inchoate in the dictionary is just beginning; incipient. Other definition of inchoate is undeveloped; immature; rudimentary. Inchoate is also in an uncompleted state; not yet made specific or valid.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO INCHOATE

PRESENT

Present
I inchoate
you inchoate
he/she/it inchoates
we inchoate
you inchoate
they inchoate
Present continuous
I am inchoating
you are inchoating
he/she/it is inchoating
we are inchoating
you are inchoating
they are inchoating
Present perfect
I have inchoated
you have inchoated
he/she/it has inchoated
we have inchoated
you have inchoated
they have inchoated
Present perfect continuous
I have been inchoating
you have been inchoating
he/she/it has been inchoating
we have been inchoating
you have been inchoating
they have been inchoating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I inchoated
you inchoated
he/she/it inchoated
we inchoated
you inchoated
they inchoated
Past continuous
I was inchoating
you were inchoating
he/she/it was inchoating
we were inchoating
you were inchoating
they were inchoating
Past perfect
I had inchoated
you had inchoated
he/she/it had inchoated
we had inchoated
you had inchoated
they had inchoated
Past perfect continuous
I had been inchoating
you had been inchoating
he/she/it had been inchoating
we had been inchoating
you had been inchoating
they had been inchoating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will inchoate
you will inchoate
he/she/it will inchoate
we will inchoate
you will inchoate
they will inchoate
Future continuous
I will be inchoating
you will be inchoating
he/she/it will be inchoating
we will be inchoating
you will be inchoating
they will be inchoating
Future perfect
I will have inchoated
you will have inchoated
he/she/it will have inchoated
we will have inchoated
you will have inchoated
they will have inchoated
Future perfect continuous
I will have been inchoating
you will have been inchoating
he/she/it will have been inchoating
we will have been inchoating
you will have been inchoating
they will have been inchoating
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would inchoate
you would inchoate
he/she/it would inchoate
we would inchoate
you would inchoate
they would inchoate
Conditional continuous
I would be inchoating
you would be inchoating
he/she/it would be inchoating
we would be inchoating
you would be inchoating
they would be inchoating
Conditional perfect
I would have inchoate
you would have inchoate
he/she/it would have inchoate
we would have inchoate
you would have inchoate
they would have inchoate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been inchoating
you would have been inchoating
he/she/it would have been inchoating
we would have been inchoating
you would have been inchoating
they would have been inchoating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you inchoate
we let´s inchoate
you inchoate
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to inchoate
Past participle
inchoated
Present Participle
inchoating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INCHOATE


affiliate
əˈfɪlɪˌeɪt
appreciate
əˈpriːʃɪˌeɪt
associate
əˈsəʊʃɪˌeɪt
create
kriːˈeɪt
date
deɪt
debate
dɪˈbeɪt
devaluate
diːˈvæljʊeɪt
donate
dəʊˈneɪt
eight
eɪt
estate
ɪˈsteɪt
estimate
ˈɛstɪˌmeɪt
gate
ɡeɪt
generate
ˈdʒɛnəˌreɪt
great
ɡreɪt
hate
heɪt
Kate
keɪt
Kuwait
kʊˈweɪt
mispunctuate
ˌmɪsˈpʌŋktʃʊeɪt
revaluate
ˌriːˈvæljʊeɪt
valproate
vælˈprəʊeɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INCHOATE

incessantness
incest
incestuous
incestuously
incestuousness
inch
inch by inch
incharitable
Incheon
inchmeal
inchoately
inchoateness
inchoation
inchoative
inchoatively
Inchon
inchpin
inchtape
inchworm
incidence

WORDS THAT END LIKE INCHOATE

accurate
appropriate
at any rate
benzoate
caproate
certificate
chocolate
corporate
dimethoate
ethanoate
exclusive OR gate
graduate
in the aggregate
inaccurate
inappropriate
mate
on a plate
out-of-state
participate
sodium benzoate

Synonyms and antonyms of inchoate in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INCHOATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inchoate» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inchoate

Translation of «inchoate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INCHOATE

Find out the translation of inchoate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inchoate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inchoate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

早期
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incipiente
570 millions of speakers

English

inchoate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपूर्ण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير متجانسة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

зачаточном
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incipiente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপরিণত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rudimentaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inchoate
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

inchoate
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

初期段階の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불완전 해
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inchoate
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khởi sự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆரம்பித்த நிலையில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपच आणणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

gelişmemiş
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inchoate
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nierozwinięty
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зародковому
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

incipient
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ατελής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kiem
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inchoate
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

inchoate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inchoate

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INCHOATE»

The term «inchoate» is regularly used and occupies the 55.368 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INCHOATE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inchoate

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3 QUOTES WITH «INCHOATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inchoate.
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A. S. Byatt
In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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David Chase
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would fit in. That's called art. And then something happened to pop music, which is that it became art under the hand of the Beatles, the Stones, and Bob Dylan and some other people.
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Jeffrey Kluger
Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCHOATE»

Discover the use of inchoate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inchoate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Inchoate: An Experiment in Architectural Education
Edited by Marc Angelil and Liat Uziyel. Essays by Robert Somol, Mark Lee, Cary Siress, and Andrew Whiteside.
Marc M. Angélil, Marc Angélil, 2003
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Criminal Law
The only exception involves capital crimes or first-degree felonies, in which case the inchoate offense is punished as a seconddegree felony. Id. The Commentary to the Code provides the following rationale for this approach: The theory of this ...
Associate Professor Criminal Justice Program Washington State University Spokane David C Brody, David C. Brody, Distinguished Teaching Professor School of Criminal Justice University at Albany New York James R Acker, 2011
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Inchoate Liability for Assisting and Encouraging Crime
INTRODUCTION 4.1 In Part 3 we suggested that a major defect of the common law is the lack of inchoate liability for assisting the commission of an offence. In this Part we set out the competing arguments and explain why we are persuaded  ...
Great Britain: Law Commission, 2006
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Inchoate: (Short Stories Volume I):
Inchoate. (Short. Stories. Volume. I). Lazlo. Ferran. Copyright © 2008 by Lazlo Ferran All Rights Reserved. Visit the Lazlo Ferran blog to see what I am currently working on: http://bit.ly/YJZzdi ...
Lazlo Ferran, 2010
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Business Regulatory Framework
Such an instrument is known as inchoate stamped instrument. The signatory is liable on such an instrument, however, the person to whom the instrument has been transferred may be restricted from filling in the maximum amount covered by ...
Dr. Ashok Sharma
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Reconstructing Criminal Law: Text and Materials
Inchoate offences A final extension of the basic framework of liability lies in the existence of inchoate offences of attempt, incitement and conspiracy. Many specific inchoate offences are created by statute, but here our focus is on the general ...
Nicola Lacey, Celia Wells, Oliver Quick, 2003
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Criminal Law
The word "inchoate" comes from Latin and means”to begin.” Each inchoate offense has some of its own elements, but they all share two inchoate Offenses from elements: the mens rea of purpose or specific intent (Chapter 4) and the actus ...
Joel Samaha, 2013
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Participating in crime
Reform of inchoate liability for assisting and encouraging crime 1.41 In the first report, we said that the major defect of the current law is that the scope of inchoate liability for assisting or encouraging the commission of an offence is limited.
Great Britain: Law Commission, 2007
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Conspiracy and attempts: a consultation paper
INTRODUCTION 7.1 This Part addresses issues of principle relating to "double inchoate" form of liability. We use this term to describe instances where someone is charged with an inchoate offence relating to another inchoate offence.
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10
Grotian Society Papers 1968: Studies in the History of the ...
view which later was widely advocated, namely that symbolic annexation, or ceremonial occupation creates in the discovering State an inchoate title which must be completed by actual occupation within a reasonable time.115 The symbolic ...
Charles Henry Alexandrowicz

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCHOATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inchoate is used in the context of the following news items.
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The aerotropolis of Heathrow is being built for airheads - FT.com
Increasing economic inequality is built-in to the underlying dynamics of the inchoate Heathrow aerotropolis and ingrained in the airport's ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
Chattanooga Shooting: American Violence Never Ends - Esquire
Already, there is the inchoate mongering of fear and war. Already, we got a con run on us about how this act was inspired by ISIS,and enough ... «Esquire.com, Jul 15»
3
Should There Be a Cause of Action for Negligent Referrals?
1990), a 1990 decision from the Eastern District, in which the court concluded that "a forwarding attorney's inchoate right to share in the success ... «The Legal Intelligencer, Jul 15»
4
True Story, film review: First feature from theatre's Rupert Goold is an …
The first feature from theatre's Rupert Goold is an unfocused, inchoate affair about Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill), a journalist who, at a low ebb, ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
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The Weekend Read: 'Towel Season' - Esquire
It's about the tug between that inchoate desire most of us feel to be or to do something great and it's about how complicated greatness it is if one ... «Esquire.com, Jul 15»
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In 1970, the Oakland Athletics brought a minor league team to North …
With most players under the age of 21, the Bay Area mostly saw a bunch of inchoate ballplayers get their professional sea legs at Clyde Allen ... «Coos Bay World, Jul 15»
7
Earl Sweatshirt on Hollywood parties, deconstructing Hermann …
... Bastard, such as Assmilk) which evinced not inchoate delinquent rage, but rather a far more devious and accomplished form of loathing. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Longitude 2015 - a bluffer's guide - RTÉ Ten
Producer Jack Adams sprang from London's grime underworld and he says his mission statement is to capture the inchoate confusion in key ... «RTE.ie, Jul 15»
9
How Scott Walker 2016 Clouds the Left's Judgement
The crisis of identity has propelled Walker's political opponents into spasms of inchoate fury. Like George W. Bush before him, the left presumes ... «Commentary Magazine, Jul 15»
10
Derby City Council v SK and Others [2015] EWFC 57
Even if I am wrong, I am satisfied that those bodies who have choate or inchoate rights of custody in Poland, namely the Polish Court and/or the ... «Family Law, Jul 15»

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