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incept

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in⋅cept

  [in-sept]
Use incept in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
to take in; ingest.
Origin:
1560–70; < L inceptus ptp. of incipere to begin, undertake, equiv. to in- in- 2 + cep- (comb. form of cap- take; see captive ) + -tus ptp. suffix; sense “take in” by literal trans. of prefix and base

Related forms:
in⋅cep⋅tor, noun
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in·cept   (ĭn-sěpt')   
tr.v.   in·cept·ed, in·cept·ing, in·cepts
To take in; ingest.

[Latin incipere, incept-, to begin, take up; see inception.]
in·cep'tor n.
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