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Definitions of incipient

1. only partly in existence; imperfectly formed; "incipient civil disorder"; "an incipient tumor"; "a vague inchoate idea" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB

2. Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day. Webster Dictionary DB

3. Beginning to be or to appear. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.

4. Just beginning. A practical medical dictionary. By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop. Published 1920.

5. Incipiency. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.

6. Belonging to the first stages; beginning. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.

7. Beginning. See Inception. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.

8. Beginning; commencing. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.

9. in-sip'i-ent, adj. beginning.--ns. INCIP'IENCE, INCIP'IENCY.--adv. INCIP'IENTLY. [Pr.p. of L. incip[)e]re.] gutenberg.org/ebooks/37683

10. [Latin] Beginning, commencing; as I. cataract, na

11. Beginning; in an initial stage. Hence incipience, -ENCY, nn., incipiently adv. [Latin] Concise Oxford Dictionary

12. Commencing or beginning. American pocket medical dictionary.