The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inchoation
Inchoation \In`cho*a"tion\, n. [L. inchoatio, incohatio.] Act of beginning; commencement; inception.
The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts,
would be looked on as the first inchoation of them.
--Sir M. Hale.
It is now in actual progress, from the rudest
inchoation to the most elaborate finishing.
--I.
Taylor.
Wiktionary
inchoation
n. A beginning or origin.