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nascent, a.|ˈnæsənt|
[ad. L. nascent-, nascens, pres. pple. of nascī to be born.]
1. In the act of being born or brought forth.
a1624R. Crakanthorp Vigil. Dormitans 188 In the first the Pope was but Antichrist nascent, in the second Antichrist crescent. 1679C. Nesse Antichrist 64 Antichrist was nascent when Rome usurp'd authority first ouer all the churches. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 91 Formed at once in the first article of the nascent animalculum. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 113 Some are found to place their eggs within the aurelia of some nascent insect. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1843) II. 349 Ensuring a due supply of food for the nascent larvæ. 1839–48Bailey Festus xxxiv. 360 To seize the nascent souls Of men as they rerose from death to life. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer 100 The population, over whom the nascent babe was to reign.
2. transf. In the act or condition of coming into existence; just beginning to be; commencing to form, grow, or develop, etc.
a. of mathematical quantities.
1706W. Jones Syn. Palmar. Matheseos 226 These Fluxions..are in the First Ratio of their Nascent Augments. 1766T. Amory Buncle (1770) IV. 38 An adequate notion of a nascent or evanescent quantity. 1801Young in Phil. Trans. XCII. 25 A partial undulation, filling up the nascent angle between the radii and the surface. 1821Parr Let. Wks. 1828 VIII. 352 Your project of publishing sermons resembles a nascent arc.
b. of practices, institutions, qualities, or other abstract concepts.
In very frequent use in the 19th c., in a great variety of contexts.
1741Warburton Div. Legat. II. 218 To support nascent Hero-worship. 1749Berkeley Let. Wks. 1871 IV. 323, I recommended this nascent seminary to an English bishop. 1763Gray Let. Poems (1775) 301 Imagination..reigns in all nascent societies of men. 1803Syd. Smith Wks. (1850) 15 These symptoms of returning, or perhaps nascent purity in the mind of Mr. Lewis. 1818G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ I. 297 A person who was perplexed with a nascent infidelity. 1847R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. v. (1853) 205 The nascent emotion acquires vigour. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. ix. 278 Two alternative expedients were adopted by nascent law.
c. of material things or substances. (Common in scientific use, esp. in Chem. and Zool.) spec. applied to hydrogen that has just been released from a compound by electrolysis or chemical action (marked by its great reactivity and reducing power).
1802Paley Nat. Theol. (1817) 60 That cartilage in truth is only nascent or imperfect bone. 1807H. Davy in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. XCVII. 11 It was natural to account for both these appearances, from the combination of nascent oxygene and hydrogene respectively. 1826― in Ibid. CXVI. 388 Nascent hydrogen was not, as had been generally believed, the cause of the appearance of metals from metallic solutions. 1832Planting 91 in Lib. Usef. Kn., Husb. III, Nascent stem.—The development of the stem of a seedling plant, just previous to the exhibition of the first leaves. 1849Noad Electricity (ed. 3) 157 The oxides of copper and zinc reduced by the nascent hydrogen. 1862Darwin Orchids vi. 268 These protuberances may be provisionally considered as nascent antennæ. 1877Thomson Voy. Challenger I. ii. 141 They seem to thrive best among the elements of nascent limestones. 1959Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. XLV. 1441 Thus there is a protein component which is transiently associated with the ribosomes and has all the characteristics which would be expected in a compulsory precursor of the soluble proteins. It appears that this nascent protein is a polypeptide strand which is formed on the ribosome and is subsequently released as soluble protein. 1965Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. I. xi. 412 Nascent hydrogen is an unstable form of hydrogen which has sufficient life or kinetic stability for it to be able to react with Po before it is transformed into normal H2 molecules. Similarly, the hydrides of phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony can be made by the action of nascent hydrogen on soluble compounds of the element. 1974Nature 1 Nov. 74/2 Experiments..have shown that nascent RNA chains have 5′-triphosphate termini.
3. nascent state, the state of coming into existence, beginning to form, develop, etc. So nascent condition.
1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 206 Inflammable air, in its nascent state. 1819G. S. Faber Dispensations (1823) II. 213 Idolatry is plainly enough described as being only in a nascent state. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. i. ix. (1837) I. 230 Endeavouring to connect the phenomena..with a nascent condition of organic life. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xiv. (1873) 398 It may..represent the nascent state of the wing. 1880E. Cleminshaw Wurtz' Atom. The. 208 The peculiar activity of hydrogen and oxygen when in the nascent state.
4. nascent green, a light green, like that of a young plant.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 420 Yellow with blue [produces] green of a variety of shades; such as nascent green. |