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Definition of Inceptive
1. a. Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative.
2. n. An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.
Definition of Inceptive
1. Adjective. beginning; of or relating to inception ¹
2. Adjective. (grammar) aspectually inflected to show that the action is beginning ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inceptive
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inceptive
Literary usage of Inceptive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by James Hadley, Frederic De Forest Allen (1912)
"Several verbs which belong here prefix a reduplication. Only a few show an
inceptive meaning. Themes in -a- and -e-. ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Abstracts and Examinations of Title to Real Property by George William Warvelle (1921)
"inceptive Measures in the Abstract. The foregoing brief and fragmentary review
of the inceptive stages of title, but faintly expresses the vastness of our ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"purchaser is inceptive only, the title of the owner not being fully divested
until the expiration ... inceptive Title. — Woodland Oil Co. v. Shoup, 107 Pa. ..."
4. A Treatise on Code Pleading and Practice: Also Containing 1900 Forms Adapted by William Angus Sutherland (1910)
"Complaint—inceptive steps.—In an action to set aside as fraudulent a conveyance
of land, so much of the complaint as sets out in detail the inceptive steps ..."
5. A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within by Curtis Holbrook Lindley (1914)
"Nature of inceptive right acquired 07 homestead claimant. 8 210. 5 206. Location of
mining claims § 211. within homestead en- § 212. tries. ..."
6. History of the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers by William R. Kiefer, Newton Heston Mack (1909)
"inceptive Chapter. HE historian of the regiment approaches the delightful task
of writing up the deeds of the soldiers of the One Hundred and Fifty-third ..."
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