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incipient [insip′ē·ənt] Etymology: L, incipire, to commence coming into existence; at an initial stage; beginning to appear, such as a symptom or disease. incipient (insip´ēent), adj beginning, initial, commencing. incipient beginning to exist; coming into existence. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Another way to capture some of the motivating spirit of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi's intellectual investigations is by citing his own conclusion to volume four of his kalam work, al-Matalib al-'Aliyyah, after a four hundred-page long debate with the various parties of the philosophers and theologians over the problem of the incipience (huduth) versus the eternity (qidam) of the world (al-'alam): Torture and incarceration without due process, the draconian measures of Homeland Security, the devastation of Iraq and other countries, the incipience of civil wars, and the specter of other possible assaults on other "evil regimes" are all instances of the complexities entangled in this usage. The first, already noted, is the importance of gender difference, which is, of course, more important in adolescence even than in childhood or youth because of the incipience of sexual activity. |
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