Definition of Incipiency

1. Noun. Beginning to exist or to be apparent. "It is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency"

Exact synonyms: Incipience
Generic synonyms: Beginning, Commencement, First, Get-go, Kickoff, Offset, Outset, Showtime, Start, Starting Time
Derivative terms: Incipient, Incipient

Definition of Incipiency

1. Noun. A state of nascency; a quality of incipience. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incipiency

1. [n -CIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incipiency

incidently
incidents
incienso
incinerable
incinerate
incinerated
incinerates
incinerating
incineration
incinerations
incinerator
incinerators
incipience
incipiences
incipiencies
incipiency (current term)
incipient
incipient caries
incipiently
incipients
incipit
incipits
incircle
incircled
incircles
incircling
incircumscription
incircumspect
incircumspection

Literary usage of Incipiency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States by Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Meeting (1806)
"... but almost invariably the Medical Department of the Army would stamp out the disease in its incipiency, 4. Burying the Dead in a Trench in the Cholera ..."

2. A Descriptive, Explanatory, and Critical, Catalogue of Fifty of the Earliest by John Landseer (1834)
"incipiency OF LANDSCAPE PAINTING. To the successful and surprising accomplishment which we have with so much pleasure witnessed and endeavoured to develope ..."

3. Review of the Management of Our Affairs in China: Since the Opening of the (1840)
"... the incipiency of war in a more formidable shape. A single spark may raise a great fire. But if ever a little war could have been undertaken without any ..."

4. Divine Nescience of Future Contingencies a Necessity: Being an Introduction by Lorenzo Dow McCabe (1882)
"This something done by man has necessarily its incipiency in human freedom. This human incipiency necessitates a divine incipiency. The human incipiency ..."

5. Helping Your Child Get Ready for School: With Activities for Children from by Nancy Paulu (1993)
"Question 2. lease elaborate on what you referred to as the "incipiency" power of the Clayton Act. How can that be used to stop a merger where the levels of ..."

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