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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 [in-sip´e-ent]
beginning to exist; coming into existence.

incipient (insip´ēent),
adj beginning, initial, commencing.

incipient
beginning to exist; coming into existence.


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html May 10, 1861 Semi-Weekly Dispatch (Franklin, Pennsylvania) "Southern Errors" The traitors of the South committed a very grave error, when, because a few northern office-holders held sympathy for them, in the incipiency [beginning] and even more progressive stages of the rebellion, they supposed the North could be divided against itself, and thus fall an easy prey to their rapacious [taking by force] villainy.
See Johnson (2001, 896) Another commentator dates the incipiency of modern international terrorism from 1968 when three Palestinians hijacked an airliner flying from Rome to Tel Aviv.
would probably be able to help interpret some of the influences active in its incipiency, growth, and death".
 
 
 
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