Incept
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Incept is a verb meaning (transitive) To take in or ingest.
Meaning
(transitive) To take in or ingest.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To begin.
- (UK, ambitransitive) To accept or to be accepted to the Master of Arts degree at Oxford or Cambridge University.
- (transitive) To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own.
Example Sentences
The company was incepted in 2006.
Is the idea really yours? Or was it incepted into your mind by your friend?
Word Forms
- incepts
- incepting
- incepted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include insume, ingest, take in, introsume, intake, imbibe.
Related Dictionary Tools
Sources & Attribution
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.