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inceptive

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in⋅cep⋅tive

  [in-sep-tiv]
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–adjective
1. beginning; initial.
2. Grammar. (of a derived verb, or of an aspect in verb inflection) expressing the beginning of the action indicated by the underlying verb, as Latin verbs in -scō, which generally have inceptive force, as calēscō “become or begin to be hot” from caleō “be hot.”
–noun Grammar.
3. the inceptive aspect.
4. a verb in this aspect.
Origin:
1605–15; < LL inceptīvus. See incept, -ive

Related forms:
in⋅cep⋅tive⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. inchoative, embryonic, nascent.
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in·cep·tive   (ĭn-sěp'tĭv)   
adj.  

  1. Incipient; beginning.

  2. Grammar Inchoative.

n.  Grammar An inchoative verb.
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