Beginning

Definition of Beginning

Be`gin´ning

n.	1.	The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. - Gen. i. 1.
	2.	That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. I am . . . the beginning and the ending. - Rev. i. 8.
	3.	That which is begun; a rudiment or element. Mighty things from small beginnings grow. - Dryden.
	4.	Enterprise.

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