Definition of Incipit

1. Noun. The first few words of a text, especially its first line. ¹

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Definition of Incipit

1. the opening words of a text [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incipit

incinerates
incinerating
incineration
incinerations
incinerator
incinerators
incipience
incipiences
incipiencies
incipiency
incipient
incipient caries
incipiently
incipients
incipit (current term)
incipits
incircle
incircled
incircles
incircling
incircumscription
incircumspect
incircumspection
incisal
incisal embrasure
incisal guidance
incisal guide
incisal guide angle

Literary usage of Incipit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1895)
"incipit : Dictum est (f. 98 b, 1. 1). At the end 1J pages are left blank. ... 132 b, 1. 14). Quire L of 8 folios. Hand 6. incipit : fuerit ..."

2. Venice: Its Individual Growth from the Earliest Beginnings to the Fall of by Pompeo Molmenti, Horatio Forbes Brown (1906)
"... unum cum corio albo cum clavis qui incipit in prima carta fratres exeuntes de cochina et finit in ultima credo in unum Deum. ..."

3. Coryat's Crudities: Hastily Gobled Up in Five Moneths Travells in France by Thomas Coryate, George Coryate (1905)
"... incipit Joannes Jackson. John Jackson. Can it Be possible for A naturall man To travell nimbler then You should tie to his horne-peec'd Tom ..."

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