incipit
/in-si-pit; Latin ing-ki-pit/US // ˈɪn sɪ pɪt; Latin ˈɪŋ kɪ pɪt //UK // Latin (ˈɪnkɪpɪt) //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the introductory words or opening phrases in the text of a medieval manuscript or an early printed book.
- : Music. the first words of a chanted liturgical text, as that of a Gregorian chant or certain medieval motets.
Examples
I am read by journalists, by my fellow-novelists, and by boys; with these, incipit et explicit my vogue.
She got up early the next morning, and wrote in her diary, "Incipit vita nova!"
Inprimis incipit a loco ubi Gernesheim marcha adjungitur ad Hephenheim marcham,' &c.
Incipit libellus de ludo Scaccorum, et de dictis factisque nobilium virorum, philosophorum et antiquorum.
Apicii Celii epimeles Incipit liber primus conditum paradoxum.
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