Initiate
[ɪ'nɪʃɪeɪt] or [ɪ'nɪʃɪet]
Definition
(noun.) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; 'it is very familiar to the initiate'.
(noun.) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field.
(verb.) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; 'This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants'.
(verb.) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite; 'African men are initiated when they reach puberty'.
Inputed by Dan--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.
(v. t.) To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
(v. t.) To introduce into a society or organization; to confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
(v. i.) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.
(a.) Unpracticed; untried; new.
(a.) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
(n.) One who is, or is to be, initiated.
Typed by Leona
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Introduce, give entrance to.[2]. Indoctrinate, instruct, teach.[3]. Begin, commence, inaugurate, enter upon.
Editor: Nancy
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INAUGURATE]
Edited by Lizzie
Examples
- She looked at him and saw him, and knew that he was initiate as she was initiate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What they initiate, others imitate. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But once this inertia has been overcome and movement is under way they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Thus, there has been initiated the development of a new and important industry whose possible ultimate proportions are beyond the range of present calculation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I accepted the invitation; was initiated; attended a meeting just one week later, and never went to another afterwards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By gradual steps, initiated in Starley’s Rover in 1880, (see Fig. 183), the high front wheel was reduced in size, until the proportions of the modern Safety (Fig. 184) have been obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In reality we are witnessing a change of conscience, initiated by cranks and fanatics, sustained for a long time by minorities, which has at last infected the mass of the people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The guests had been selected with a boldness and discrimination in which the initiated recognised the firm hand of Catherine the Great. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Once initiated there were but few public men who would have the courage to oppose it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The character and good faith of Nicholas II, who initiated these Hague gatherings, we will not discuss at any length here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What is here insisted upon is the necessity of an actual empirical situation as the initiating phase of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The natural, or native, powers furnish the initiating and limiting forces in all education; they do not furnish its ends or aims. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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