inceptor

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noun

A beginner; one in the rudiments.

OriginLatin inceptor →
Scrabble 12
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Meanings

nouninceptor (plural inceptors)

plural inceptors

  1. A beginner; one in the rudiments.
  2. UKOne who is on the point of taking a Master of Arts degree at an English university.

    And in the year 1576. Febr. 23. Mr. Hookers Grace was given him for Inceptor of Arts, Doctor Herbert Weſtphaling, a man of note for Learning, being then Vice-chancellour [of the University of Oxford].

    1670, Izaak Walton, “The Life of Mr. Rich[ard] Hooker, the Author of Those Learned Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity”, in The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. […], volume III, London: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb for Rich[ard] Marriott, […], →OCLC, pages 21–22

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
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Origin

  1. Latininceptor
  2. Englishinceptor

Borrowed from Latin inceptor.

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Anagrams

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