"Inceptive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... consueverat. Inceptive verbs end in sco and denote the beginning of an action or state. The perfect and pluperfect of such verbs often represent the state of things resulting from the completion of the action, and are then to be translated as present and imperfect respectively. So consuesco 'I am becoming ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... have Inchoative or Inceptive meaning (see Sec. 155, 1). When they have the Perfect, it is the same as that of the Verbs from which they ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett
... his afflicted family; now lying in a state of almost superhuman Destitution—by Eugenius M'Grane, Philomath and classical Instructor in the learned Languages of Latin, English, and the Hibernian Vernacular, with an inceptive Initiation into the Rudiments of Greek, as far as the Gospel of St. John the Divine; attended with copious Disquisitions on the relative Merits of moral and physical Philosophy, as contrasted with the pusillanimous ...
— The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine • William Carleton |
