\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.