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Incept

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To take in or ingest. transitive
  2. 2
    To begin. transitive

    "The company was incepted in 2006."

  3. 3
    To accept or to be accepted to the Master of Arts degree at Oxford or Cambridge University. UK, ambitransitive
  4. 4
    To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own. transitive

    "Is the idea really yours? Or was it incepted into your mind by your friend?"

Etymology

* Originally borrowed from Latin inceptus, past participle of incipio. The term is marked "obsolete" in the first edition of the OED (1905); newer usage is a back-formation from inception. * (put an idea into someone's mind): Inspired by the film Inception (2010).

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