incept
verbEtymology * Originally borrowed from Latin inceptus, past participle of incipio. The term is marked "obsolete" in the first edition of the OED (1905); newer usage is a back-formation from inception. * (put an idea into someone's mind): Inspired by the film Inception (2010).
1
To take in or ingest.
2
To begin.
- The company was incepted in 2006.
3
UK, Ambitransitive To accept or to be accepted to the Master of Arts degree at Oxford or Cambridge University.
4
To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own.
- Is the idea really yours? Or was it incepted into your mind by your friend?
- Related terms
- inception, inceptive, inceptor, incipience, incipient