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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A termination of verbs of Latin origin, having usually an inceptive or inchoative force, as in convalesce, begin to be well, effervesce, begin to boil up, deliquesce, begin to melt away, etc.; in some verbs, as coalesce, the inceptive force is less obvious.

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