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单词 inception
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inceptionn.

/ɪnˈsɛpʃən/
Etymology: < Latin inceptiōn-em, noun of action from incipĕre to begin. Compare Old French inception, -cion (15–16th cent.).
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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