Incipient
[ɪn'sɪpɪənt]
Definition
(adj.) only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; 'incipient civil disorder'; 'an incipient tumor'; 'a vague inchoate idea' .
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Definition
(a.) Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Beginning, commencing, inchoate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INCEPTION_and_BEGINNING]
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Definition
adj. beginning.—ns. Incip′ience Incip′iency.—adv. Incip′iently.
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Examples
- All was silence and darkness: the roaring, rushing crowd all vanished and gone--the damps, as well as the incipient fire, extinct and forgotten. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It need not be supposed that all varieties or incipient species attain the rank of species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It seems, even, that such an incipient transformation must rather have been injurious. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Nevertheless according to my view, varieties are species in the process of formation, or are, as I have called them, incipient species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It was now the season of incipient preparation for dinner. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- We have seen that in each country it is the species belonging to the larger genera which oftenest present varieties or incipient species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Lucy, has he not rather the air of an incipient John Bull? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His eye became a degree less opaque: it was as though an incipient film had been removed from it, and she felt the pride of a skilful operator. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Each nation lives in a state of suppressed hostility and incipient war with its neighbors. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But I too plainly felt this would never do: the slightest hesitation would have been fatal to the incipient treaty of peace. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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