An event that is a beginning

Usage examples of inception.

The accompanying illustration shows the condition of the limb of a girl of twenty-one, the subject of lymphedema, five years after the inception of the disease.

Almost from the first inception of the missions, the Jesuits found themselves in the strange position of, though being hated by the Spanish settlers, yet recurred to as mediators when any of the wild tribes proved too powerful for the Spanish arms.

Church, from its inception, was how to deal with a complex of literal-concrete myths that it had inherited and to which it owed a certain allegiance.

Then, after they talked for a few minutes, he requested a detailed report of the entire plans for Islas Piedras from its inception to ensure he had been given full access to all information prior to giving his approval.

From its inception it has purported, by exaggeration and anticipation, to predict our futures, to preimagine or prefigure them for us.

After the war, boundaries between diverse groups were further weakened by the inception of new radio networks, motion pictures, and national advertisements for the booming consumer culture.

Rhysling Awards for science fiction poetry, voted on by members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, have been given continuously since their inception in 1978.

I am convinced that most men die without ever having thought, in the proper sense of the word, not so much for want of wit or of good sense, but rather because the shock necessary to the reasoning faculty in its inception has never occurred to them to lift them out of their daily habits.

And I wonder if that may not be the reason why, in certain Oriental cities one can feel, even today, that one is moving in a dream: the city is dreamlike because in its inception it was actually suggested by a dream, which then was rerendered in stone.

Iraq has also worked hard to give Egypt a stake in the erosion of sanctions by directing large numbers of expensive oil-for-food contracts to Egyptian firms such that Egypt has typically been among the top five countries in terms of contracts since the inception of the oil-for-food program.

And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.

Sometime later they were talking as chummily as if the Colonel's chain had not obstructed the Moon venture since its inception.

A member of the politburo with the confidence of, President Jien Zenim, he was also the Chief Executive Officer of the largest shipping company in the world, which he had personally managed the growth of since its inception.

He was, Ham happened to know, endeavoring to perfect a selective germicidal disinfecting agent which would be effective in epithelial tissue, where a certain type of cancer was its inception.

From which could follow the seduction of peoples, the inception of new sects, and many other impieties that subvert the Church and Catholics.