Definition of "incept" in English

verb

1. (transitive) To take in or ingest.

2. (transitive) To begin.

   • The company was incepted in 2006.

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.

   • Is the idea really yours? Or was it incepted into your mind by your friend?