Crossword clues for inceptor
inceptor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inceptor \In*cep"tor\, n. [L.]
A beginner; one in the rudiments.
--Johnson.One who is on the point of taking the degree of master of arts at an English university.
--Walton.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A beginner; one in the rudiments. 2 (context UK English) One who is on the point of taking a Master of Arts degree at an English university.
Usage examples of "inceptor".
My inceptor was in gold, the house historian in formal brown, the receptors were draped in silver, the nootchi were clad in festive reds and yellows, the household campesi wore their leather aprons.
Since it was unlikely my parsimonious inceptor had paid them to sing, their presence indicated a busy day, with many candidates scheduled to ascend amid a consequent probability of largess.
No matter how stingy, no inceptor would let an offspring ascend to the terrace without making some gift to the choristers, for they have jeering songs aplenty to direct at the niggardly.
As it was, they sang me upward with our own nootch joining in the responses (ke had always fancied kerself a singer) while my inceptor handed out sufficient coin to sop their esteem.
Unlike the nootchi or the campesi or many other categories, receptors and inceptors were often picked for genetics alone, even when they had no inclination for the task.
If things weren’t well done, then one got a rap on the head from a proffe or inceptor, or one did without sweetness at meals, or one spent the whole day helping the campesi clean out the compost house.
The men were all inceptors, except the very young ones, who would be, and very old ones, who had been.
Years before, several of the undifferentiated young of Quo-Tern had been selected as inceptors more or less simultaneously.
As is the way with inceptors, ke’i had accumulated receptors, some from Quo-Tern and some from outside, three here, four there, and the receptors had recruited nootchi for the creating of young.
So many inceptors, so many receptors, so many nootchi, so many undifferentiated ones, so many campesi, all to find places for.
It was at this juncture we found that several of the inceptors were closely related, that several of them shared the same cell parents, even the same nootch!
While organ gratification comes first with inceptors, progeny pride comes second!
When we noticed this, we marked all the related inceptors for retirement therapy.
We identified all those procreated by the inceptors in question and tagged them in the records as non-breeder stock, even if they showed great aptitude for the task.
It is an unfortunate truth that inceptors and receptors of very little brain are often very skilled with the generative organ and emit very strong mating smells.