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incipient

[in-sip-ee-uhnt]

Origin

adjective

beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage: an incipient cold.

Origin:
1580–90; < Latin incipient- (stem of incipiēns, present participle of incipere to take in hand, begin), equivalent to in- in-² + -cipi- (combining form of capi- take) + -ent- -ent

Related forms

in·cip·i·ent·ly, adverb

Can be confused: incipient, insipid, insipient.

Synonyms
beginning, nascent, developing.

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incipient (ɪnˈsɪpɪənt)

—*adj*
	just starting to be or happen; beginning

[C17: from Latin incipiēns, from incipere to begin, take in hand, from in-² + capere to take]

in'cipience

—n

in'cipiency

—n

in'cipiently

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

incipient

1669, from L. incipientem (nom. incipiens), prp. of incipere "begin, take up," from in- "on" + -cipere, comb. form of capere "to take" (see capable).

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"So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth."

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