inceptive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

"Observe," said the Big Ape, "observe the inceptive harmony."

From The Story of a Child by Smith, Caroline F.

In this new, busy, inspiring, delightful world logic became a synthesis erected upon some inceptive absurdity, carried solemnly to a picturesque and erroneous conclusion.

From The Common Law by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Yet as soon as we give the “durative” notion of being red an inceptive or transitional turn, we can avoid the parallel form “it becomes red, it turns red” and say “it reddens.”

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward