inceptorn.
/ɪnˈsɛptə/, /ɪnˈsɛptɔː/, U.S. /ᵻnˈsɛptər/ 1. One who incepts or is about to incept in a University.
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society > education > educational administration > university administration > taking degree or graduation > [noun] > graduate > doctor or master
inceptor1479
1479 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 645 I wold be Inceptor be-for Mydsomer.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Inceptours or regent masters in the vniuersities, candidati.
1574 in Peacock Stat. Cambridge (1841) App. A. p. xxi.
1650 in J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) I. 518 In case any of the Sophisters, Questionists, or Inceptors, fail in the premises..they shall be deferred to the following year.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1669 (1955) III. 533 Next follow'd the Disputation of the Inceptor Doctors in Medicine... Then Disputed the Inceptors of Law... Lastly, Inceptors in Theologie.
1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 7 Mar. (O.H.S.) I. 201 Dr. Hudson, then an Inceptor in Arts, bore a Musquet.
1865 Standard 5 July The proctors [at Oxford] have, this morning, issued..the list of ‘inceptors’ of the present year—by which we mean the list of those who, by proceeding to some superior degree, have made themselves members of convocation.
1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages I. v. 453 The evening concluded with a banquet given at the expense of the Inceptor or a party of Inceptors to the Masters and others.
2. gen. A beginner. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Inceptor, a Beginner, or Enterprizer.
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inˈceptorship n.
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inceptorship1831
1831 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. June 401 The forms of Inceptorship, and the Examinations of some of the nations, still connected the Faculty of Arts with this venerable site.
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