incipient
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i adjective
beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage: an incipient cold.
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incipient (ɪnˈsɪpɪənt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| just starting to be or happen; beginning | |
| [C17: from Latin incipiēns, from incipere to begin, take in hand, from | |
| 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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Example sentences
He has dark eyes, incipient jowls, and a manner that can change in a moment from expansively genial to theatrically menacing.
It seems a world away from the incipient revolution proclaimed on the nightly news.
In the kernel of an idea lies that idea's incipient obsolescence.
The symptom in the true neuroses is frequently the nucleus and incipient stage of development of the psychoneurotic symptom.
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