Inchoative

Our train on that first official journey to Washington proved to be a kind of inchoative "Congressional Limited." ❋ Unknown (1905)

"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. ❋ Ivy Kellerman Reed (1922)

Also, forms like *wóidh₂e 'I know' which never ever show reduplication in the later perfect hint at their original meaning and usage: 'I know' (stative) → 'I have come to know' (inchoative) → 'I have known/seen' (perfective past). ❋ Unknown (2009)

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'. ❋ Glyn Moody (2008)

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. ❋ Glyn Moody (2008)

Thinking less "transitive" and more aspectual, the use of *-mi would be because of its inchoative nature. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The graces of the Holy Ghost are either more common and inchoative, or special and completing of the work of conversion. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)

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. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Only in this way is justice done to the contrasted participle of state (_sedentes_) and inchoative perfect (_castrametati sunt_). ❋ Julius Wellhausen (1881)

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. ❋ Various (1876)

Light signifies holiness too, and a prosperous state, but it signifies knowledge as that which is inchoative of all the rest. ❋ 1630-1705 (1822)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

- igx - = suffix forming inchoative and intransitive verbs ❋ Ivy Kellerman Reed (1922)

The first day is a literal or inchoative day, here prophesied of, and that is already past, past long since; viz., in that day wherein the seventy years of the Babylonian captivity expired; then was this prophecy or promise begun in part to be accomplished: at what time the captivity of Judah, and divers of Israel with them, upon their return out of Babylon, kept a solemn fast at the river "Ahava, to afflict their souls before their God." ❋ Various (1876)

Bull and Stillingfleet, we might characterize their comparative excellences thus: That the divines of the first æra had a deeper, more genial, and a more practical insight into the mystery of Redemption, in the relation of man toward both the act and the author, namely, in all the inchoative states, the regeneration and the operations of saving grace generally; -- while those of the second æra possessed clearer and distincter views concerning the nature and necessity of Redemption, in the relation of God toward man, and concerning the connection of ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

"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 ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)