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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to incunabula.

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Examples

  • Unlike traditional artistic endeavours such as literature, painting or sculpture, videogames and their creation, according to Janet Murray, are still in an incunabular period.

    Thesis is complete! Ben Abraham 2008

  • Unlike traditional artistic endeavours such as literature, painting or sculpture, videogames and their creation, according to Janet Murray, are still in an incunabular period.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Ben Abraham 2008

  • This world of ours is just in it's incunabular stage.

    Enter the Bibliomancer: A new career for the CodePoet ZenMondo Wormser 2007

  • The first two, called Golden Letters, were incunabular editions, and the letters also figured prominently in early collections of Pico's works, whose front-matter listed Ficino,

    Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copenhaver, Brian 2008

  • In short, if you indeed prize your smudgy incunabular existence, it would be logical for you to quit the field and preserve for yourself and your cause what little time history will leave you. "

    Spock Must Die Blish, James 1970

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