incipiency
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If diagnosed during its incipiency, remedial measures such as are usually employed to treat sprains, are indicated and later the parts should be blistered.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
I rejoice, dear sir, that I have some connection with this honorable movement in its incipiency.
From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas) Wilson
There must be an organized force of trained and vigilant men, ample in numbers during the dry season to reach all fires in their incipiency.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
The law provided penalty for the deed; the gospel rebuked the evil passion in its incipiency.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
Yet this conceit in its incipiency, he knew not how to account for.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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