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Nascent
Definitions
- 1 Emerging; just coming into existence. not-comparable
"In the firſt, the Pope was but Antichriſt naſcent ; In the ſecond, Antichriſt creſcent ; In the third, Antichriſt regnant ; but in this fourth, he is made Lord of the Catholike faith, and Antichriſt triumphant[…]"
- 2 Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept. not-comparable
"For, as we have ſhewn, the original Uſe of it was to ſupport naſcent Hero-Worſhip."
- 3 Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription. not-comparable
"There are no reasons for supposing that any of the residual atmospheric oxygen is immediately combined with fixed or nascent hydrogen, or hydrocarbonate, in the venous blood at 98°, by slow combustion, and consequently none for supposing that water is immediately formed in respiration."
- 4 Naissant. not-comparable
"[…] charges of blazonry, bends sinister and bends dexter, lions couchant, lions nascent, and[…]"
- 5 Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta. not-comparable, obsolete
"Fluxions are very nearly as the Augments of the Fluents, generated in equal, but infinitely ſmall parts of Time ; and to ſpeak exactly, are in the Prime Ratio of the naſcent Augments : but they may be expounded by any Lines that are proportional to ’em."
- 1 being born or beginning wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nāscēns, nāscentis, present participle of nāscor (“I am born”). Doublet of naissant.
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