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Definition of Incepts
1. incept [v] - See also: incept
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incepts
Literary usage of Incepts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"D, an older stage, from the side, showing the development of more stamens a, in
acropetal succession, followed by the youngest incepts of carpels g, ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1908)
"... he incepts; he shall have lectured on or in some canonical book of the Bible
for a year, for at least ten days in each term ; nor shall it be permitted ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1850)
"Bucer incepts as Dr. of Divinity, 1549, xxiv. 114. See Dr. Lamb's Document* from
MSS. CCCC p. 153. Appointed to lecture by Edw. VI., 1549, xxx. Brit. May. ..."
4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"Here again the whole growing zone showed the incepts of numerous pores characteristic
of the hymenial surface. That these were not more developed, ..."
5. Mind (1899)
"... but it has by so much changed its position. It has neither mouth nor digestive
cavity, nor organs of any kind. To take nourishment it simply incepts or ..."
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