Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
INCHOATE
incipient, inchoate
(adjective) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; “incipient civil disorder”; “an incipient tumor”; “a vague inchoate idea”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
inchoate (comparative more inchoate, superlative most inchoate)
Recently started but not fully formed yet; just begun; only elementary or immature.
Synonyms: elementary, immature, embryonic, incipient, nascent, rudimentary
Chaotic, disordered, confused; also, incoherent, rambling.
Synonyms: chaotic, confused
(law) Of a crime, imposing criminal liability for an incompleted act.
Noun
inchoate (plural inchoates)
(rare) A beginning, an immature start.
Verb
inchoate (third-person singular simple present inchoates, present participle inchoating, simple past and past participle inchoated)
(transitive) To begin or start (something).
(transitive) To cause or bring about.
(intransitive) To make a start.
Anagrams
• Noachite, choanite, ethanoic, thiocane
Source: Wiktionary
In"cho*ate, a. Etym: [L. inchoatus, better incohatus, p. p. of incohare to begin.]
Definition: Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete.
– In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.
In"cho*ate, v. t.
Definition: To begin. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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