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Definition of incipient adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

incipient

adjective
 
/ɪnˈsɪpiənt/
 
/ɪnˈsɪpiənt/
[usually before noun] (formal)
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  1. just beginning
    • signs of incipient unrest
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a beginner): from Latin incipient- ‘undertaking, beginning’, from the verb incipere, from in- ‘into, towards’ + capere ‘take’.
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