inceptive

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In former times, when the English rule was in its inceptive stage, when external pageant—the outcome of vanity—was not much thought of, when the simple taste of the people was not tainted by luxury and corruption, an unnatural craving for titles exerted but a very feeble influence on the minds of the great.

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"One is at once impressed," admits Psychologist Seashore, "with the appalling task which this inceptive science has assumed for itself, and how undeveloped the work is within this field."

From Time Magazine Archive

The gathering nebula of an inceptive star.

From Time Magazine Archive

Particularly in the playing of Miss Johns one seems to see the gathering nebula of an inceptive star.

From Time Magazine Archive

Therefore, by exhaustion, the commentator finally adopts, for the atha of the sútra, the remaining meaning of "the inceptive now."

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