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Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 1, 2014

inchoation \in-koh-EY-shuhn\, noun:

a beginning; origin.

Three things cannot but exist towards all animated beings from the nature of divine justice; co-sufferance in the circle of inchoation, because without that none could attain the perfect knowledge of any thing…
-- John Williams, The Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Cymry, 1844

Three things are necessary in the Circle of Inchoation; the least of all animation, and thence the beginning…
-- Robert Southey, Notes to Madoc in Wales, 1805

Inchoation came to English in the 1500s from the Late Latin inchoātiōn-.

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