单词 | inception |
释义 | inceptionn. 1. The action of entering upon some undertaking, process, or stage of existence; origination, beginning, commencement. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun] ordeOE thresholdeOE frumthc950 anginOE frumeOE worthOE beginninga1225 springc1225 springc1225 commencementc1250 ginninga1300 comsingc1325 entryc1330 aginning1340 alphac1384 incomea1400 formec1400 ingressc1420 birtha1425 principlea1449 comsementa1450 resultancec1450 inition1463 inceptiona1483 entering1526 originala1529 inchoation1530 opening1531 starting1541 principium1550 entrance1553 onset1561 rise1589 begin1590 ingate1591 overture1595 budding1601 initiationa1607 starting off1616 dawninga1631 dawn1633 impriminga1639 start1644 fall1647 initial1656 outset1664 outsettinga1698 going off1714 offsetting1782 offset1791 commence1794 aurora1806 incipiency1817 set-out1821 set-in1826 throw-off1828 go-off1830 outstart1844 start1857 incipience1864 oncome1865 kick-off1875 off-go1886 off1896 get-go1960 lift-off1967 a1483 Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1792) 18 From his first inception, tyll the day of his dethe, his house stode aftyr one vnyformitie. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §316 The Inception of Putrefaction hath in it a Maturation. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 69 The very repugnancy in Nature of successive Beings to be without an inception, or eternal. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 299 Cases in which..the devise, according to the state of events at the time of its inception, never could have had an object. 1874 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 6) 211 Minute organisms which appear, so to speak, full-blown at their inception. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. I. ii. 213 Between the inception and the execution of the project Louis XIV died. 2. In University use: The action of incepting; see quots. 1888, 18951, and cf. commencement n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] commencementa1387 proceeding1479 act1587 commencing1588 graduationa1639 manumissiona1662 determination1665 determining1675 inceptionc1680 bachelorizinga1739 post-graduation1920 c1680 A. Wood Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxf. (1792) I. 60 After he had feasted the Scholars at his Inception, they like clownes left him. c1680 A. Wood Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxf. (1792) I. 66 There was no scholar, if of any account, but did show himself bountiful at his Inception. 1841 G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. 11 There yet remained to be performed [before creation] the exercises of inception or commencement. 1888 Mullinger in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 835/1 By inception was implied the master's formal entrance upon, and commencement of, the functions of a duly licensed teacher, and his recognition as such by his brothers in the profession. 1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages I. iv. 232 In our English Universities, conservative as they are in many things, every trace of the ceremony of Inception has at length unhappily disappeared; only the preliminary ceremonial of the License survives. 1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages I. v. 452 An interval of half a year commonly elapsed between License and Inception... He was then free to give his formal inaugural lecture or rather disputation in the presence of the Faculty, to receive the Magisterial biretta and the book,..to receive the kiss of fellowship, and to take his seat upon the magisterial Cathedra. 3. The action of taking in, as an organism. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > absorption or assimilation (of a substance, etc.) > [noun] attraction?a1425 likening?a1425 assimilation1626 insumption1676 absorption1737 intussusception1765 introsusception1816 inceptiona1849 uptake1931 a1849 E. A. Poe (O.) The result is the immersion of the mouth and nostrils, and the inception, during efforts to breathe while beneath the surface, of water into the lungs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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