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

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

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

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

The development of wheeled vehicles from the first inceptive idea of the wheel to the present appreciable methods of its use was comprehensively illustrated.

From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Wisthaler, Johanna S.