Adjective : an incipient cold. From Dictionary.com.
Look, I'm a hollerin ', incipiently double-chinned white guy from the Carolinas. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Brown: Joe Wilson: Pan-Carolina Hollerin' Champeen] Reference
Roy Harley, Coche Inciarte, and Moncho Sabella were all weak and incipiently delirious. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
DOBBS: That debate, John, as you've reported a number of times, incipiently between the State Department and the Pentagon. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2003] Reference
Mark Antony is splendid: James Purefoy presents well the aristocratic, calculating, incipiently bibulous ladies 'man of whom our sources speak. From Wordnik.com. [Rome Yet Again] Reference
Terrible beyond description will be, in that event, the condition of the Union and emancipationist party now incipiently developing itself at the South; -- abandoned and deserted by the withdrawal of the actual presence and protection of Northern arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864] Reference
The militia clauses of Article I allow Congress to reach deeply into whatever portion of the American public is thought to represent, at least incipiently or even latently, the mystical "Militia" of the Second Amendment and of the Constitution as a whole. From Wordnik.com. [Not with a whimper but a bang] Reference
It was the year of The Doors and Cream -- and, if you were a Max's Kansas City habitue (and Max's in the late '60s was the hip epicenter of planet earth), of locals Tim Hardin and Richie Havens and Tim Buckley: brooding, eloquent, magisterial (Havens) or (the Tims) incipiently tragic. From Wordnik.com. [Sheila Weller: Interviewing Jimi Hendrix] Reference
Such first principles of practical reasoning direct one to actions and dispositions and arrangements that promote such intelligible goods, and that directiveness or normativity is expressed by “I should ¦” or “I ought ¦” in senses which although truly normative are only incipiently moral. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Law Theories] Reference
The first efficient cause was the World Soul or Universal Intellect imma - nent in its own matter; at the more local level likewise all future forms were virtually — i.e., incipiently, not merely potentially — present in the matter (cf. logoi spermatikoi of Stoics, rationes seminales of Augustine). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The germ of this idea was incipiently and crudely struggling in the mind of the late distinguished philologist, Dr. Charles Kreitser, formerly professor of languages in the University of Virginia, and author of numerous valuable articles in Appletons '' Cyclopædia; 'the most learned man, doubtless, that unfortunate Hungary has contributed to our American body of savans. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
I'm a hollerin ', incipiently double-chinned white guy from the Carolinas. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
This practice, imported from England, began to flourish incipiently in our country. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret] Reference
I come from a long line of hollerin ', incipiently double-chinned white guys from the Carolinas. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The effect of Mr. Campus's videos is indeed soothingly meditative and incipiently transcendental. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
At the gym, he enters into a sit-up competition with a teenager whom he finds incipiently attractive. From Wordnik.com. [A Guy's Moleskine Notebook] Reference
Watson would contend that the inner speech must be incipiently pronounced; we should argue that it MIGHT be merely imaged. From Wordnik.com. [The Analysis of Mind] Reference
If their method lives up to its promise, it could one day detect everything from incipiently souring milk to high explosives. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The disease has undoubtedly been most frequently introduced through the purchase of apparently healthy but incipiently affected animals. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying] Reference
For some time she had regarded him as incipiently insane, and as she watched him this evening he seemed to her more than ever charged with sinister possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [Harvest] Reference
For the first time she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Awakening and Selected Short Stories] Reference
I for one have become intolerant to the journalistic automatisms that tag every right-wing phenomenon in Italy as "fascist", or "proto-fascist" or "incipiently fascist"?. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
For in truth, though he was no coxcomb, he could not help seeing -- all the more because of Pamela's variable moods towards him -- that she was at least incipiently interested in him. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth's Campaign] Reference
In passing, it may be noted merely that this inferential origin of the lines of institutional development is in accord with the habits of certain higher and incipiently organized animals. From Wordnik.com. [The Siouan Indians] Reference
(Anderson) that are imagined through print capitalism, and have there root ideas about kin, origin and place, the content of this political consciousness is incipiently nationalistic, surely. From Wordnik.com. [Kottu] Reference
Hammell has been commissioned to write the biography of Jorris Buxton, whose claim to fame seems to be his decision to leave the life of letters for the life of what is, at least incipiently, military warfare. From Wordnik.com. [The Valve] Reference
In some, benevolent; in some, ambiguous; in two or three, to a close scrutiny, all but incipiently malign, the variation of less than a hair's breadth in the linear shadings round the mouth sufficing to all this. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
Justin Salinger convinces as the somewhat creepy Martin, Ian McElhinney brings a suitably irritating gravity to the priestly David, and Dimitri Leonidas is enjoyably awkward as the slack-limbed, incipiently incestuous Max. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Cedarosaurus, Malarguesaurus and Andesaurus by possessing incipiently biconvex distal caudal vertebrae; anterior caudal neural arches with prespinal laminae and anterior and middle caudal vertebrae with ventral longitudinal hollows. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Our Lord deals with the little group of His disciples as incipiently and imperfectly, but really, cleansed through 'the word which He has spoken to them,' and gives them His exhortation towards that conduct through which the cleansing and the union and the fruitfulness will all be secured. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
(Rodrick, Greg’s incipiently delinquent heavy-metal older brother, flexes a set of fierce and hyphen-like eyebrows.). From Wordnik.com. [Revenge of the Wimps] Reference
And every one of those girls is either incipiently jealous and suspicious of her husband if he's charming or beginning to be bored with him if he isn't. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
And every one of those girls is either incipiently jealous and suspicious of her husband if he’s charming or beginning to be bored with him if he isn’t.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
We also studied unaltered, incipiently melted granite xenoliths from two silicic lavas, Medicine Dacite (~2000 year old) and Crater Glass Flow (erupted 1065±90 14C years BP: dates from. From Wordnik.com. [U-Pb and Ar-Ar constraints on the age of granitic intrusions beneath Medicine Lake Volcano, California, USA] Reference
Leopold’s careful distinction between community integrity and land health indicates that he was incipiently aware of the distinction that later would emerge more clearly between ecosystem and evolutionary ecology. From Wordnik.com. [Aldo Leopold's Legacy] Reference
"Dracorex") with a slightly thickened (or incipiently domed) frontoparietal region, open supratemporal fenestrae and dorsal skull covered with emerging nodal ornamentation with clusters of relatively smaller diameter pyramidal nodes on the squamosals. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
2.7 Only incipiently moral. From Wordnik.com. [Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy] Reference
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