inceptive
/ɪnˈsɛptɪv
/adjective
1Relating to or marking the beginning of something; initial: the inceptive period of the program...
- After quick cooling down, the inceptive sunshade curtain is set to a curled finished sunshade curtain.
- And this is also true of the person who relies for his inceptive right upon a filing.
- And of course the most outstanding example of an inceptive cyborg where mind and matter are linked into one functional device is a living biological system.
1.1 Grammar (Of a verb) expressing the beginning of an action.Many of the most frequently used verbs in English are merely inceptive variants of other common verbs....
- In colloquial use, this affix may be appended to the inceptive copulas and to verbs as well, though this is considered uneducated.
- This same phrase is repeated later in but with an inceptive prefix emphasizing the inchoative sense.
noun Grammar
An inceptive verb.These verbs are in the literature referred to as ‘inceptives’....
- The logical subject was marked nominative with intransitives, inceptives and verbs of motion.
Origin
Early 17th century (as a noun): from late Latin inceptivus, from incept- 'begun', from the verb incipere.
- unmarketable
- unmarketed
- unmarred
- unmarriable
- unmarriage
- unmarriageable
- non-enzymatic
- non-enzymic
- none other than
- non-equilibrium
- non-erotic
- nones
- none-so-pretty
- non esse
- non-essence
- non-essential
- non est
- non est factum
- non est inventus
- nonesuch
- Nonesuch chest
- Nonesuch ornament
- nonet
- none the less
- nonetheless