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inceptive, a. and n.|ɪnˈsɛptɪv|
[a. obs. F. inceptif, -ive (16th c. in Godef.), ad. L. type *inceptīv-us, f. incept-, ppl. stem of incipĕre to begin: see -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Beginnning, commencing, incipient; relating to or of the nature of a beginning, initial.
1662J. Sparrow tr. Behme's Rem. Wks., 2nd Apol. Tylcken 10 Whether is it an inceptive or beginning Mystery, or an Eternall one? a1763Byrom Art Eng. Poetry (R.), You see, in speaking, or by sound, or ink, The grand inceptive caution is to think. 1873Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) §247 The various accents of the Newfoundland dog..are manifestations wonderfully like inceptive speech.
2. Gram. and Logic. Expressing the beginning of action, as inceptive verb, inceptive tenses, inceptive proposition: see quots.
1656Trapp Comm. Rom. vii. 7 The word concupisco is inceptive. 1706Phillips s.v., Verbs Inceptive, the same as Inchoatives. 1725Watts Logic iii. ii. §4 Inceptive and desitive propositions..as the fogs vanish as the sun rises; but the fogs have not yet begun to vanish; therefore the sun is not yet risen. 1751Harris Hermes i. vii. Wks. (1841) 152 The three first of these tenses we call the inceptive present, the inceptive past, and the inceptive future. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 128, ‘I am going to write’; ‘I am about to write’. These have been called the Inceptive future, as they note the commencement of an action. 1885Athenæum 23 May 660/1 Nor has any attempt been made to give the inceptive force of the participle תא{hebtsade}ו{hebmem} [being brought forth] in Gen. xxxviii. 25.
b. Beginning a word; initial.
1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 54 note, This [mvinyo] is..supplied with the truly S. African inceptive m before a consonant.
†3. Geom. Used of a locus deficient in some particular dimension, but generating by its motion another which has that dimension. Obs.
1706Phillips, Inceptive Magnitude, a Word us'd by Dr. Wallis to express the first Principles in Geometry, which, though of no Magnitude themselves, are yet capable of producing such; thus a Point has no Magnitude it self, but is inceptive of a Line. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., So a line, though it have no breadth, is yet inceptive of breadth; that is, capable, by its motion, of producing a surface which has breadth.
B. n.
1. a. Gram. An inceptive verb. b. Logic. An inceptive proposition.
1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 126 What mean you by Inceptives ending in sco? 1669Milton Accedence Wks. (1847) 466/1 Verbs called Inceptives ending in sco, borrow their Preterperfect Tense from the Verb wherof they are deriv'd, as tepesco tepui from tepeo. 1725Watts Logic ii. ii. §6 Inceptives and desitives, which relate to the beginning or ending of any thing; as, the Latin tongue is not yet forgotten. No man before Orpheus wrote Greek verse. 1751Harris Hermes i. vii. Wks. (1841) 154 A species of verbs..called inchoatives or inceptives.
†2. (pl.) Initial circumstances; beginnings. Obs.
1728North Mem. Musick (1846) 14 In these inceptives of musick. a1734― Exam. i. iii. §63 (1740) 171 One may observe a different Scope in each, as the Persons, however close to the Inceptives of the Movement, were differently circumstanced.
Hence inˈceptively adv., in an inceptive way.
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