inception

inception
/in sep"sheuhn/, n.
1. beginning; start; commencement.
2. Brit.
a. the act of graduating or earning a university degree, usually a master's or doctor's degree, esp. at Cambridge University.
b. the graduation ceremony; commencement.
[1375-1425; late ME incepcion < L inception- (s. of inceptio), equiv. to incept(us) begun (see INCEPT) + -ion- -ION]
Syn. 1. origin, outset, source, root, conception.

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