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incept, v.|ɪnˈsɛpt|
[f. L. incept-, ppl. stem of incipĕre to begin (see incipient). Cf. rare OF. incepter to begin = L. freq. inceptāre to begin, undertake.]
†1. trans. To undertake; to begin, commence, enter upon. Obs.
1569Newton Cicero's Olde Age 7 b, Those things..were unluckely and in ill time incepted. 1641More's Rich. III 245 Was not his first enterprise..begun and incepted by the murther of divers noble..and vertuous personages? 1802,1895[see incepted, incepting below].
2. intr. To enter formally upon the office of a Master or Doctor in a University, and to be recognized as such by the Faculty; to complete the taking of a degree; = commence v. 4. (A term retained at Cambridge: now obs. at Oxford.) Hence gen. to enter upon one's career or office.
1852C. A. Bristed Eng. University (ed. 2) 348 The M.A. incepts in about three years and two months from the time of taking his first degree. 1888Mullinger in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 835/1 What is technically known as admission to that degree [licentia docendi] was really nothing more nor less than receiving the chancellor's permission to incept. 1895Rashdall Univ. Europe in Mid. Ages I. v. 288 The ‘Licentiate’ was not regarded as a full ‘Master’ or ‘Doctor’ till be had ‘incepted’. 1896Daily News 28 Oct. 3/4 Cambridge..Permission to incept in surgery has been granted by the Degree Committee of the Special Board of Medicine to H. H. C―, M.A., M.B., of Clare College.
3. trans. (Biol.) To take in, as an organism or cell.
1863H. J. Carter in Ann. Nat. Hist. Ser. iii. 45 Each time after incepting a grain it went away to some distance. 1885E. A. Schäfer in Proc. R. Soc. XXXVIII. 88 The intussusception of particles is one of the most characteristic phenomena exhibited by amœboid cells, which will carry such incepted matters along with them in their slow movements from place to place.
Hence inˈcepted, inˈcepting ppl. adjs.
1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxvii. (1819) 482 In plants..the incepted organization, though formed within and through and by a preceding organization, is not corrupted by its corruption, or destroyed by its dissolution. 1861M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 60 The love of truth..which is as unmistakable in the incepting scholar as in the consummate scientific intellect. 1884F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) XXXIX. 338/3 An introductory guide to Sanskrit..for incepting students whose mother-tongue is English. 1893Fowler Hist. C.C.C. (O.H.S.) 277 One of the incepting Doctors. 1895Raven Hist. Suffolk 58 The joint action of the village community, rather than the mandate of an incepting thane. |