Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Incipient; beginning.
- adjective Grammar Inchoative.
- noun Grammar An inchoative verb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Beginning; starting; noting the initial point or step: as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb (one that expresses the beginning of action).
- In mathematics, serving to initiate or produce: applied to such moments or first principles as, though of no magnitude themselves, are yet capable of producing results which are: thus, a point is inceptive of a line; a line, of a surface; and a surface, of a solid.
- noun That which begins or notes beginning, as a proposition or a verb. Also
inchoative .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.
- adjective Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; ; -- called also
inchoative .
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- adjective
beginning ; of or relating toinception - adjective grammar aspectually inflected to show that the action is beginning
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because I spent a good two minutes weighing the pros and cons of each, I now realize that I was wholly taken advantage of by inceptive in the Christopher Nolan sense of the word marketing.
Danny Licht: Woes of a Consumer: Toothpaste Fragmentation Danny Licht 2011
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The correct order is been seen (pre-recent), done seen (recent), did see (pre-present), do see (past inceptive).
I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar 2010
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Little did I know that my Brooklyn born and bred future wife was also witnessing, 50 miles to the west of me, this inceptive conflagration paired to Christmas music.
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The correct order is been seen (pre-recent), done seen (recent), did see (pre-present), do see (past inceptive).
I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar 2010
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As we have seen, Heidegger thinks that the tradition takes its bearing from the end of the inceptive beginning.
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But Kant shows the limits of the mathematical prejudice and in doing so shows the limits of inceptive truth.
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As we have seen, Heidegger thinks that the tradition takes its bearing from the end of the inceptive beginning.
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We recall that in the 1935 lecture course, Heidegger specified two requirements for the overcoming of the disjunction. a The first was to show the limits of its inceptive truth.
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But Kant shows the limits of the mathematical prejudice and in doing so shows the limits of inceptive truth.
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We recall that in the 1935 lecture course, Heidegger specified two requirements for the overcoming of the disjunction. a The first was to show the limits of its inceptive truth.
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ruzuzu commented on the word inceptive
"In mathematics, serving to initiate or produce: applied to such moments or first principles as, though of no magnitude themselves, are yet capable of producing results which are: thus, a point is inceptive of a line; a line, of a surface; and a surface, of a solid."
--Cent. Dict.
October 23, 2012