incept.
To take in or ingest.
Meaning & usage
To take in or ingest.
To begin.
The company was incepted in 2006.
To accept or to be accepted to the Master of Arts degree at Oxford or Cambridge University.
To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own.
Is the idea really yours? Or was it incepted into your mind by your friend?
Where this word comes from
* 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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