inceptive
Example Sentences
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"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
Particularly in the playing of Miss Johns one seems to see the gathering nebula of an inceptive star.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Author would here mark his indebtedness to Dr. Joseph A. Seiss, and Dr. Campbell Morgan, for the inceptive thoughts re Judas Iscariot, and The Antichrist.
From The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson
Imperfect tense, 260; —— conative, 260, 3; —— inceptive, 260, 3; —— with jam, etc.,
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
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
