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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Incipient \In*cip"i*ent\, a. [L. incipiens, p. pr of incipere
to begin. See {Inception}.]
Beginning to be or to show itself commencing; initial; as
the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day --
{In*cip"i*ent*ly}, adv
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
incipient
adj : only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient
civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague
inchoate idea" [syn: {inchoate}]
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