inceptive
Example Sentences
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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
Particularly in the playing of Miss Johns one seems to see the gathering nebula of an inceptive star.
From Time Magazine Archive
The municipal preemptors contend that the same rules of equal right, inceptive and progressive, in these respects, apply to both classes of preemptors.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)
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.
"Observe," said the Big Ape, "observe the inceptive harmony."
From The Story of a Child by Smith, Caroline F.
