Usually means: Beginning words of a text.
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  1. incipit: Merriam-Webster
  2. incipit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incipit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incipit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Incipit, incipit: Wordnik
  6. incipit: Wiktionary
  7. incipit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. incipit: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. incipit: Dictionary.com
  10. incipit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Incipit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. incipit: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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  1. incipit: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (incipit)

▸ noun:  The first few words of a text, especially its first line.
▸ noun:  (music) The first few bars of a piece of music.

Similar:
incipience, opener, beginning, firstling, preface, introit, begincement, impriming, protasis, intro, more...

Opposite:
conclusion, ending, finale, closure

Phrases:
Incipit Satan, more...

Adjectives:
same, textual, different, usual, melodic, similar, musical, latin, common, seasonal, sic
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Similar:
incipience, opener, beginning, firstling, preface, introit, begincement, impriming, protasis, intro, more...

Opposite:
conclusion, ending, finale, closure

Phrases:
Incipit Satan, more...

Adjectives:
same, textual, different, usual, melodic, similar, musical, latin, common, seasonal, sic



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