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Jan. 1, 2015

incunabula \in-kyoo-NAB-yuh-luh, ing-\ noun 1. the earliest stages or first traces of anything. 2. extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type. Quotes Similarly, as considered from the entelechial point of view, the "principles" of Greek tragedy would be sought not in the incunabula of tragedy, but in late developments… -- Kenneth Burke, "Myth, Poetry, and Philosophy," Language as Symbolic Action, 1966 Origin Incunabula is derived from the Latin word of the same spelling which referred to an infant's swaddling clothes. It entered English in the 1820s.

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