incept

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (transitive) To take in or ingest.
2. (transitive) To begin.
3. (UK, ambitransitive) To accept or to be accepted to the Master of Arts degree at Oxford or Cambridge University.
4. (transitive) To put an idea into a person's mind so deeply that they believe it was their own.

Etimologie (Engels)

* 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).