ingressiveadj.n.

1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. xix. xiv. 148 The Divine light is not ingressive (or a light comming into a man from without).

1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 300 Such signal Remonstrations (like an ingressive Spirit) strike deep Impressions into my thoughtful Breast.

1885 B. L. Gildersleeve in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 6 71 The sigmatic aorist is decidedly ingressive, and we do not want the ingressive action here.

1931 G. O. Curme Syntax xix. 377 The ingressive aspect is often expressed by begin, commence, or start in connection with an infinitive or gerund or object.

1931 G. O. Curme Syntax xix. 378 The ingressive idea is often expressed by the ingressives get, grow, fall, turn, wax, [etc.].

1932 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 31 251 The former is called the ingressive aspect: ‘He woke up (i.e., entered upon the waking state) early.’

1935 G. O. Curme Gram. Eng. Lang. II. xii. 237 In duratives, ingressives, effectives..the present participle represents the act as incomplete.

1961 Y. Olsson On Syntax Eng. Verb vii. 201 Zero-linking is the result of different criteria from those conceptualistically applied in distinguishing between ‘ingressive’ and ‘effective’.

1943 K. L. Pike Phonetics vi. 88 Sounds thus made are ingressives (or rarefactives).

1943 K. L. Pike Phonetics vi. 88 Ingressive lung-air sounds, and clicks, are produced in this way.

1963 Amer. Speech 38 52 Phonemes..can be produced with an ingressive as well as an egressive air stream.

1969 M. M. Firestone in H. Halpert & G. M. Story Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland 66 Some are able to ‘talk like a janney’—ingressive utterances at a high pitch.

1972 R. Wardhaugh Introd. Ling. iii. 32 Sometimes ingressive air, that is, air going to the lungs, may also be used.

1972 R. Wardhaugh Introd. Ling. iii. 36 Ingressives are rare indeed, in English confined perhaps to certain kinds of exclamatory sounds.