inceptv.
/ɪnˈsɛpt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈsɛpt/ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)]
beginc1000
take?a1160
comsea1225
gina1325
commencec1330
tamec1386
to take upa1400
enterc1510
to stand to1567
incept1569
start1570
to set into ——1591
initiate1604
imprime1637
to get to ——1655
flesh1695
to start on ——1885
1569 T. Newton tr. Cicero Worthye Bk. Olde Age 7 b Those things..were unluckely and in ill time incepted.
1641 More's Rich. III 245 Was not his first enterprise..begun and incepted by the murther of divers noble..and vertuous personages?
1802 [see incepted adj. at Derivatives]. 1802 [see incepted adj. at Derivatives]. 2. intransitive. 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 obsolete at Oxford.) Hence gen. to enter upon one's career or office.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > take degree [verb (intransitive)]
commencea1387
proceed1455
to pass master?1566
graduate1807
incept1852
to go out in the poll1889
to pass out1916
1852 C. A. Bristed Five Years Eng. University (ed. 2) 348 The M.A. incepts in about three years and two months from the time of taking his first degree.
1888 Mullinger 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.
1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages I. v. 288 The ‘Licentiate’ was not regarded as a full ‘Master’ or ‘Doctor’ till be had ‘incepted’.
1896 Daily 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. transitive (Biology) To take in, as an organism or cell.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > absorption or assimilation (of a substance, etc.) > absorb or assimilate ( a substance, etc.) [verb (transitive)]
attract1545
assimilate1578
incorporate1653
introsume1657
insume1676
incept1863
1863 H. J. Carter in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3rd Ser. 45 Each time after incepting a grain it went away to some distance.
1885 E. A. Schäfer in Proc. Royal Soc. 38 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.
Derivatives
inˈcepted adj.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > absorption or assimilation (of a substance, etc.) > [adjective] > absorbed
incepted1802
assimilated1844
1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. xxvii. 582 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.
inˈcepting adj.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [adjective]
commenced1588
commencing1715
incepting1861
1861 M. Pattison Serm. (1885) 60 The love of truth..which is as unmistakable in the incepting scholar as in the consummate scientific intellect.
1884 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) 39 338/3 An introductory guide to Sanskrit..for incepting students whose mother-tongue is English.
1893 T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. 277 One of the incepting Doctors.
1895 J. J. Raven Hist. Suffolk 58 The joint action of the village community, rather than the mandate of an incepting thane.
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