▪ I. incipience
(ɪnˈsɪpɪəns)
[f. incipient: see -ence.]
Beginning, commencement, origination; the fact or condition of being incipient or in an early stage; with pl., a beginning, a first step or stage.
| 1864 Webster, Incipience, Incipiency, beginning; commencement. 1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xviii. x. (1872) VII. 270 The dim incipiences of dawn. 1898 19th Cent. XLIV. 995 The wealth of England does not explain the incipience of the college system. |
▪ II. incipience
obs. (erron.) f. insipience.