Definition of beginning

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Beginning (n.) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states..

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Rise :: Rise (v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs..
Enterer :: Enterer (n.) One who makes an entrance or beginning.
Originally :: Originally (adv.) In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation..
Exordium :: Exordium (n.) A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration..
Auspicious :: Auspicious (a.) Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning..
Inchoate :: Inchoate (a.) Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete..
Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..
Inchoation :: Inchoation (n.) Act of beginning; commencement; inception.
Paragraph :: Paragraph (n.) A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark /, but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin..
Epigraph :: Epigraph (n.) A citation from some author, or a sentence framed for the purpose, placed at the beginning of a work or of its separate divisions; a motto..
Acephalous :: Acephalous (a.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry..
Principia :: Principia (n. pl.) First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.
Proviso :: Proviso (n.) An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract, grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced, usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant, or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso..
Epanadiplosis :: Epanadiplosis (n.) A figure by which the same word is used both at the beginning and at the end of a sentence; as, Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice..
Age :: Age (n.) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?.
Beginning :: Beginning (n.) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states..
Beginning :: Beginning (n.) That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
Begin :: Begin (v. t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.
Ginning :: Ginning (v. i.) Beginning.
Dawn :: Dawn (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
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