inception

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INCEP'TION, noun [Latin inceptio, from incipio, to begin; in and capio, to take.] Beginning. I hope this society will not be marked with vivacity of inception apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay.
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