New Word
"inchoate"
Meaning: not completely formed or developed yet; being only partly in existence or operation; incipient; imperfectly formed or formulated; formless, incoherent
From: Latin inchoatus, past participle of inchoare to start work on, perhaps from in- + cohum, part of a yoke to which the beam of a plow is fitted
First Known Use: 1534
I bought a copy of Thomas Cahill's latest, Heretics and Heros: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World with part of my Christmas money. This word appears on page 13: "This meant that Christianity was to exist in two permanent form, Orthodox and Catholic, and that these would remain significantly different in fairly obvious ways. Such divergence could only encourage speculation that there might be even more diversity in the future - almost as much diversity, perhaps, as was to be found among the various nation-states then forming inchoately." (written from the perspective immediately following the Council of Florence in 1439.)
Meaning: not completely formed or developed yet; being only partly in existence or operation; incipient; imperfectly formed or formulated; formless, incoherent
From: Latin inchoatus, past participle of inchoare to start work on, perhaps from in- + cohum, part of a yoke to which the beam of a plow is fitted
First Known Use: 1534
I bought a copy of Thomas Cahill's latest, Heretics and Heros: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World with part of my Christmas money. This word appears on page 13: "This meant that Christianity was to exist in two permanent form, Orthodox and Catholic, and that these would remain significantly different in fairly obvious ways. Such divergence could only encourage speculation that there might be even more diversity in the future - almost as much diversity, perhaps, as was to be found among the various nation-states then forming inchoately." (written from the perspective immediately following the Council of Florence in 1439.)