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Webster 1913 Edition

Beginning

Be-gin′ning

,
Noun.
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.
“To hinder our beginnings.”
Shak.
Syn. – Inception; prelude; opening; threshold; origin; outset; foundation.

Webster 1828 Edition

Beginning

BEGIN'NING

,
ppr.
First entering upon; commencing; giving rise or original; taking rise or origin.

BEGIN'NING

,
Noun.
The first cause; origin.
I am the beginning and the ending. Rev.1.
1.
That which is first; the first state; commencement; entrance into being.
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Gen.1.
3.
The rudiments, first ground or materials.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow

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