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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Origin :: Origin (n.) The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.
Ecthlipsis :: Ecthlipsis (n.) The elision of a final m, with the preceding vowel, before a word beginning with a vowel..
Eve :: Eve (n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event..
Dacapo :: Dacapo () From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated..
Commence :: Commence (v. i.) To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.
Induction :: Induction (n.) The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.
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..
Acephalous :: Acephalous (a.) Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry..
Date :: Date (v. i.) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.
Inception :: Inception (n.) Beginning; commencement; initiation.
Madam :: Madam (n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir..
Vacation :: Vacation (n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.
Entry :: Entry (n.) The act of entering or passing into or upon; entrance; ingress; hence, beginnings or first attempts; as, the entry of a person into a house or city; the entry of a river into the sea; the entry of air into the blood; an entry upon an undertaking..
Aurora :: Aurora (n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning..
Threshold :: Threshold (n.) Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life..
Debut :: Debut (n.) A beginning or first attempt; hence, a first appearance before the public, as of an actor or public speaker..
Apheresis :: Apheresis (n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute..
Conception :: Conception (n.) The state of being conceived; beginning.
Principiant :: Principiant (a.) Relating to principles or beginnings.
#NAME? :: -escent () A suffix signifying beginning, beginning to be; as, adolescent, effervescent, etc..
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