The research she was doing was still in its inchoative stages. From LearnThat.org.
inchoative stages. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Our train on that first official journey to Washington proved to be a kind of inchoative "Congressional Limited.". From Wordnik.com. [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference
"inchoative" nature.a. inchoative verbs from the roots of "intransitive verbs" indicate the "beginning" or "coming into existence" of the act or condition expressed in the root: sidigxi, to become sitting, to sit down, to take a seat. starigxi, to become standing, to stand up. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
The adjective can serve as the base for deriving two verb lexemes, the inchoative OPEN 'become open' and the causative OPEN 'cause to become open'. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding Openness] Reference
A textbook example: English has no causative DIE alongside inchoative DIE because it's pre-empted by causative KILL; in a sense, KILL got there first, so there's no point in creating causative DIE. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding Openness] Reference
Light signifies holiness too, and a prosperous state, but it signifies knowledge as that which is inchoative of all the rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
Trinity present to the soul in a new manner: that is, as the object of direct, though inchoative, knowledge and as the object of experimental love. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Interpreters will tell us of a threefold day, wherein this prophecy or promise is to be fulfilled; that is, the literal or inchoative, evangelical or spiritual, universal or perfect day. From Wordnik.com. [The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation] Reference
It must be stressed that the completive is not the same thing as past tense since there is the example of (现在)下雨了 (xianzai) xia yu le meaning 'it is raining (now)' (i.e. 'it has finished starting to rain (now)', so to speak) whereby le appears in effect to be marking an inchoative action1. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
This preparation of the subject, which raises him up to the revealed object and tunes him to it, is for the individual person the disposition we could call the threefold unity of faith, hope, and love, a disposition that must already be present at least in an inchoative way in the very first genuine encounter. From Wordnik.com. [Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog] Reference
Igx - = suffix forming inchoative and intransitive verbs. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
"In spite of the character given to Oxford of being a city of short memories and abruptly-ended friendships, in spite of the inchoative qualities of youths of eighteen or twenty, especially in respect to the 'ruling passion' so dear to novelists, yet surely in the three or four years spent at Oxford by an incredible company of young students. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
Inceptive or inchoative, 155, 1. From Wordnik.com. [New Latin Grammar] Reference
218, a; inchoative, 232, a; impersonal, 50; reflexive, 41; trans., defined, 22; trans, from intrans. roots, 275; intrans., defined. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
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