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Definition of Incipit
1. the opening words of a text [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incipit
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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