Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an incipient manner.

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  • adverb In an incipient manner.

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Examples

  • If they were too common – if, say, iguanas drifted from Guadeloupe to Anguilla every year – the incipiently speciating population on Anguilla would be continually swamped by incoming gene flow and therefore could not diverge from the Guadeloupe population.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • If they were too common – if, say, iguanas drifted from Guadeloupe to Anguilla every year – the incipiently speciating population on Anguilla would be continually swamped by incoming gene flow and therefore could not diverge from the Guadeloupe population.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • I come from a long line of hollerin ', incipiently double-chinned white guys from the Carolinas.

    Scott Brown: Joe Wilson: Pan-Carolina Hollerin' Champeen 2009

  • Look, I'm a hollerin ', incipiently double-chinned white guy from the Carolinas.

    Scott Brown: Joe Wilson: Pan-Carolina Hollerin' Champeen 2009

  • 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.

    Sheila Weller: Interviewing Jimi Hendrix 2009

  • Liberalism is exposed as a manifestation of the mystery of iniquity, denounced by Saint Paul as a force acting incipiently in a covert manner already in apostolic times.

    Archive 2008-11-23 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Liberalism is exposed as a manifestation of the mystery of iniquity, denounced by Saint Paul as a force acting incipiently in a covert manner already in apostolic times.

    Liberalism: Sin, Iniquity, Abomination de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • 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.

    Natural Law Theories Finnis, John 2007

  • 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.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • 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.

    Not with a whimper but a bang 2006

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