(n) beginning to exist or to be apparent, Syn. incipience, Example:he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850; it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency
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. [1913 Webster]
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