incipiency

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Every phase of the malady as it formerly existed is depicted, as also the discoveries and incidents attending its detection and cure in its incipiency.

From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Lumley, Benjamin

There must be an organized force of trained and vigilant men, ample in numbers during the dry season to reach all fires in their incipiency.

From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress

Yet Cheltenham was not without generous partizans, but, as is common in the incipiency of opinion, they were at that time among that class who had fewest means.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob

The American system of education, in its incipiency, and for a long while, was one founded on Bible-teaching and religious exercises.

From Public School Education by Müller, Michael

The idea of constructing a planetary Canal system had its incipiency at the time of Christ's visit to our planet.

From The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation by Kennon, J. L.