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incipit

/in-si-pit; Latin ing-ki-pit/US // ˈɪn sɪ pɪt; Latin ˈɪŋ kɪ pɪt //UK // Latin (ˈɪnkɪpɪt) //

题记,序言,题词,题目

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.