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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.

Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. "Some inchoative or imperfect rays." W. Montagu. -- n.

The sweetbread of a deer. Cotgrave.

The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.

Untamable. [R.]

To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

A falling on or upon; an incident; an event. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Incidence. [Obs.] Shak.

ordinary course of common affairs is disposed of by general laws, so likewise men's rarer incident necessities and utilities should be with special equity considered. Hooker.

design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses. By some, religious duties . . . appear to be regarded . . . as an incidental business. Rogers.

Incidentally. [Obs.]

Capable of being incinerated or reduced to ashes. Sir T. Browne.

To burn to ashes; to consume; to burn. Bacon. It is the fire only that incinerates bodies. Boyle.

The act of incinerating, or the state of being incinerated; cremation. The phenix kind, Of whose incineration, There riseth a new creation. Skelton.

Beginning; commencement; incipient state.

Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. -- In*cip"i*ent*ly, adv.

See Encircle.

A small circle. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Incapable of being circumscribed or limited. Cranmer.

Condition or quality of being incircumscriptible or limitless. Jer. Taylor.