To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder;
to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones;
to comminute food with the teeth.
1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ. Nascent passions and anxieties. Berkley. 2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced. Nascent state (Chem.), the...