inceptive
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Particularly in the playing of Miss Johns one seems to see the gathering nebula of an inceptive star.
From Time Magazine Archive
"One is at once impressed," admits Psychologist Seashore, "with the appalling task which this inceptive science has assumed for itself, and how undeveloped the work is within this field."
From Time Magazine Archive
They began an inceptive organization, the object of which was to bring together representatives of the people, who should form a government.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
In this new, busy, inspiring, delightful world logic became a synthesis erected upon some inceptive absurdity, carried solemnly to a picturesque and erroneous conclusion.
From The Common Law by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
But before doing so let me acknowledge my indebtedness for the inceptive thought of all I have said, and shall say, to Dr. Joseph A. Seiss, of Philadelphia, in his wondrous lectures on 'The Revelation.'
From The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson
