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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Acephalous :: Acephalous (a.) Wanting the beginning.
Prefix :: Prefix (n.) That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure..
Finish :: Finish (n.) Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs..
Beginning :: Beginning (n.) That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
Originally :: Originally (adv.) In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation..
Former :: Former (a.) Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument..
Premise :: Premise (n.) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted..
Opening :: Opening (n.) The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech..
Ginning :: Ginning (v. i.) Beginning.
Anacrusis :: Anacrusis (n.) A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.
Inceptive :: Inceptive (a.) Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative..
Enterer :: Enterer (n.) One who makes an entrance or beginning.
Apheresis :: Apheresis (n.) The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute..
Date :: Date (v. i.) To have beginning; to begin; to be dated or reckoned; -- with from.
Fillet :: Fillet (n.) The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests..
Head :: Head (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea..
Forepart :: Forepart (n.) The part most advanced, or first in time or in place; the beginning..
Quotation :: Quotation (n.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc..
Sempiternal :: Sempiternal (a.) Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end..
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