a. rare. [ad. L. ēnāscent-em, pr. pple. of ēnāsci, f. -ē out + nāsci to be born.] That is just coming into being. Also fig.
1745. Warburton, Occas. Refl., II. Wks. (1811), 385. An enascent equivocation.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., I. 61. The new annals of enascent time. Ibid., I. iv. 489. Enascent leaves expand.
