187 examples of incipient in sentences

(take): (1) receive, deceive, perceive, deceit, conceit, receipt, reception, perception, inception, conception, interception, accept, except, precept, municipal, participate, anticipate, capable, capture, captivate, case (chest, covering), casement, incase, cash, cashier, chase, catch, prince, forceps, occupy; (2) receptacle, recipient, incipient, precipitate, accipiter, capacious, incapacitate.

The profound linguistic researches of Pictet, Fick, and others have made it probable that at the time when the Old-Aryan language was broken up into the dialects from which the existing languages of Europe are descended, the Aryan tribes were passing from a purely pastoral stage of barbarism into an incipient agricultural stage, somewhat like that which characterized the Iroquois tribes in America in the seventeenth century.

The incipient stoutness of limb contrasted strangely with the drawn meagreness of his body, which was contracted by want of food.

FASTING.It is said by many able physicians that fasting is a means of removing incipient disease, and of restoring the body to its customary healthy sensations.

The entire community is in the situation of a man who is in the incipient stages of an exhilarating intoxication, and who keeps pouring down glass after glass, in the idle notion that he is merely sustaining nature in her ordinary functions.

I fear I was betrayed to some lightness, for the awful eye of the parsonand the rector's eye of Saint Mildred's in the Poultry is no trifle of a rebukewas upon me in an instant, souring my incipient jest to the tristful severities of a funeral.

" "At that time, sir, they seemed to be in a state of incipient rebellion, because of the passage of the embargo act.

When, after the affair of August 10, Danton and his party became masters of the incipient republic, Paris lay between two perils whose relative magnitude no one could measure.

Indeed we may perceive incipient signs of disintegration all about us.

It was pleasing to recognize one of the prominent authors of Salmagundi, which I had read in my schoolboy days, and never even hoped to see the author of this bit of fun in our incipient literature.

Being plunged into a state of settled gloom, I then became acutely anxious as to my soul's salvation, and feverishly pursued every ism and ology that caught my roving eye's attention, until in one short month I had become, in despairing rotation, an incipient agnostic, atheist, pantheist, and monist.

So the incipient storm dwindled to a sullen mood on her part.

Montcalm, horrified, used every effort to stop the incipient butchery, and St. Luc, Bourlamaque and, in truth, all of his lieutenants, seconded him gallantly.

On a sudden he starts from his couch with an appearance of frenzy!his nostrils dilated, his eyes gleaming with immoderate excitationan incipient curse quivering on his lips, and every vein swellingevery muscle tense with fearful and passionate energy of purpose.

There were many spots on the Reef, of acres in extent, that formed shallow basins, in which the surface might be two or three inches lower than the surrounding rocks, and, in these spots in particular, the accumulations of an incipient earthy matter were plainly visible.

Articles of food, even bread and cake, as well as apples, plums, and other fruit, handled by persons in the incipient stages of cholera, have been known to convey the disease.

The reënforcements advised would surely have enabled the Government to hold them until further defensive measures could have been arranged; and the effect of such possession on the incipient insurrection may be well imagined when we remember the formidable armaments afterwards employed in the reduction of such of them as were permitted, without an effort on the part of President Buchanan to prevent it, to be occupied by the insurgents.

King James sold two hundred baronetcies of the United Kingdom, for one thousand pounds each; and Mr. Owen offers an unlimited number of presidentships in his incipient Utopia on the same advantageous terms.

Admit, on the other hand, the most incipient minimum of relation between any two things, and again you can't stop until you see that the absolute unity of all things is implied.

It is you, Charles Gordon, who must cure your wife of nerves, hysteria, and incipient jealousy, not I. To Mrs. Clarence St. Claire Concerning Her Husband

[Illustration: INCIPIENT CATALEPSY.]

In his arms he bore a basket, and his grey-green eyes gleamed with incipient catalepsy.

These devices are driven into the butts of the timbers so as to cross incipient checks and prevent their widening.

She has already shown signs of incipient insanity by calling Mr. HOWE, otherwise Bide-the-Bent, a "holy Father,"much to that excellent comedian's surprised content.

The absence of an incipient Reef outside of the outer Reef shows these conclusions to be well founded.

187 examples of  incipient  in sentences