initiateadj.n.

Brit.

/ɪˈnɪʃɪət/, U.S.

/ᵻˈnɪʃiət/

Etymology: < Latin initiātus, past participle of initiāre to initiate v.; also treated as past participle of the latter (? as short for initiated adj.).

A. adj. = initiated adj.

a. Admitted into some society, office, or position; instructed in some secret knowledge: see initiate v. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] > instructed or dealing in

curious1549

mysterious1583

initiatea1610

initiated1621

society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [adjective] > admitted into

initiatea1610

initiated1621

initiative1656

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [adjective] > kept secret, esoteric > participating in

initiatea1610

initiated1621

a1610 J. Healey in tr. Theophrastus Characters To Rdr., in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) The Athenians were..initiate or matriculated into these orders.

1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 6 Initiate in the Secrets of the Skies?

1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 89 With pointing finger guides the initiate youth.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 252 The symbolic meaning was left to be decyphered as before, and sacred to the Initiate.

†b. transferred. Pertaining to one newly initiated; of or belonging to a novice or unpractised person.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > novice or beginner

younglinga1250

novice1530

freshmanly1568

elementary1601

neophyte1601

initiatea1616

novitious1619

abecedarian1633

tironizinga1660

novitial1778

neophytic1856

neophytish1897

rookie1902

tironic1909

Sears-Roebuck1917

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 142 My strange & self-abuse Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse.

2. Begun, commenced, introduced: see initiate v. 1 tenant by the Curtesy initiate: see quot. 1767, and cf. quot. 1883 at initiate v. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > that has (been) begun

ybegunne?a1475

begun1483

broached1547

commenced1588

initiated1611

born1651

initiate1767

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. viii. 127 As soon..as any child was born, the father began to have a permanent interest in the lands,..and was called tenant by the curtesy initiate.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vii. 467 This worship [of the Virgin], already more than initiate, contributed..to the..violence with which the Nestorian controversy was agitated.

B. n.

1. A person who has been initiated: see initiate v. 2. Hence, A beginner, a novice.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner

younglingOE

new-comeOE

novice1340

ginner?c1400

beginner1470

apprentice1489

prentice1489

infant1526

freshmana1557

intrant1560

enterer1565

puny?1570

weakling1575

new comeling1587

novist1587

incipient1589

puisne1592

abecedary1596

neophyte1600

abecedarian1603

bachelor1604

novelist?1608

alphabetary1611

breeching boy1611

tiro1611

alphabetarian1614

principiant1619

unexperienced1622

velvet head1631

undergraduatea1659

young stager1664

greenhorn1672

battledore boy1693

youngster1706

tironist1716

novitiatea1734

recruit1749

griffin1793

initiate1811

Johnny Newcome1815

Johnny Raw1823

griff1829

plebe1833

Johnny-come-lately1839

new chum1851

blanc-bec1853

fledgling1856

rookie1868

elementarian1876

tenderfoot1881

shorthorn1888

new kid1894

cheechako1897

ring-neck1898

Johnny1901

rook1902

fresh meat1908

malihini1914

initiand1915

stooge1930

intakea1943

cub1966

1811 S. T. Coleridge Ess. Own Times (1850) 931 The merest initiate in reasoning will reply.

1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 204 When they see a respectable initiate losing his money.

1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 453 These alchemical initiates still hold themselves singularly high.

1873 E. E. Hale In his Name viii. 73 The significance of which among the initiates he well knew.

1893 Nation (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 32/3 Sulla, Antony, Cicero and his friend Atticus were initiates.

†2. ? Something initiated or newly introduced: see initiate v. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > innovation or avant-gardism > an innovation

novelty1395

novity1460

novation1501

innovation1548

initiate1603

introduction1603

renew1631

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 106 Having many new initiats to advaunce that stood you in more stead.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

initiatev.

/ɪˈnɪʃɪeɪt/

Etymology: < Latin initiāt-, participial stem of initiāre to begin, initiate, < initium beginning. Compare French initier (14th cent. in Godefroy Compl.).

a. transitive. To begin, commence, enter upon; to introduce, set going, give rise to, originate, ‘start’ (a course of action, practice, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > give rise to

makeOE

breedc1200

wakea1325

wakenc1330

engendera1393

gendera1398

raisea1400

begetc1443

reara1513

ingener1513

ingenerate1528

to stir upc1530

yield1576

to pull ona1586

to brood up1586

to set afloat (on float)1586

spawn1594

innate1602

initiate1604

inbreed1605

irritate1612

to give rise to1630

to let in1655

to gig (out)1659

to set up1851

gin1887

the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)]

beginc1175

baptizec1384

to set a (on) broachc1440

open1471

to set abroachc1475

entame1477

to set afloat1559

initiate1604

first1607

principiate1613

to set afoot or on foot1615

unclap1621

inchoatea1631

flush1633

to set on1638

principatec1650

rudiment1654

auspicate1660

embryonate1666

to strike up1711

start1723

institutea1797

float1833

spark1912

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)]

beginc1000

take?a1160

comsea1225

gina1325

commencec1330

tamec1386

to take upa1400

enterc1510

to stand to1567

incept1569

start1570

to set into ——1591

initiate1604

imprime1637

to get to ——1655

flesh1695

to start on ——1885

the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > begin or open (an action or proceeding)

set?c1450

open1471

forward1598

initiate1604

to put in a way1624

to lead off1817

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Initiate, to begin, instruct, or enter into.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. x. i. 891/1 They feared (for that present) to initiate their attempt.

a1674 Earl of Clarendon Life (1759) III. 554 Many secret Designs only initiated then and not executed till long after.

1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. ii. 177 Feelings initiated within the body, including appetites, pains, &c.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 326 This king..initiated a trade with S. America.

1883 Wharton's Law-lexicon (ed. 7) 224 The husband's title to the curtesy is initiated at the birth of issue, and consummated at the death of his wife.

b. intransitive. To take its beginning, commence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin [verb (intransitive)]

beginc1000

comsea1225

gin?c1225

becomsea1375

commencec1380

to take beginninga1400

enterc1425

to start up1568

initiatea1618

inchoate1654

dawn1716

to take in1845

to take up1846

to set in1848

a1618 J. Sylvester Mem. Mortalitie i The Grave..Where, end our Woes; our Joyes initiate.

a1681 G. Wharton Fasts & Festivals in Wks. (1683) 2 The Neomeniæ, or Feasts of New-Moons, Celebrated the First day of every Month, initiating with the New-Moons.

1846 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces 35 While magnetism is thus progressive, some other force is acting on it, and therefore it does not initiate.

1963 S. Tolansky Introd. Atomic Physics (ed. 5) xxv. 423 If pure deuterium gas can be raised to a temperature of the order of 500 million degrees C., then a thermonuclear reaction should initiate.

1971 Nature 8 Jan. 111/2 Neutrons with incident wave vectors initiating within the cross-hatched area of the example shown satisfy the conditions for diffraction.

2. transitive. To admit (a person) with proper introductory rites or forms into some society or office, or to knowledge of or participation in some principles or observances, esp. of a secret or occult character; hence more generally, To introduce into acquaintance with something, to instruct in the elements of any subject or practice. Const. into, in (†to).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > ground or initiate

foundc1394

groundc1405

introduce1475

induce1490

enter?1529

institutea1538

flesh1591

induct1603

initiate1603

principle1608

elementa1639

foundation1661

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1288 Those who are initiated and professed in this divine religion.

a1617 P. Baynes Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) 168 To initiate and to enter men into Christ.

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia (new ed.) 24 My Lord of Essex..though initiated to Armes, and honoured by the Generall, in the Portugall expedition..loved him not in sincerity.

1683 J. Dryden Life Plutarch 41 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I Our author in his old age..initiated himself, in the Sacred Rities of Delphos.

1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. Pref. sig. A3 In Initiating young Students, nothing is more to be respected than Method.

1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. viii. 53 At length my father resolved to initiate me in commerce.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. viii. xiii. 374 The..father..had him frequently at his house—initiated him betimes into his own high-born society.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 176 He is being initiated into the mysteries of the sophistical ritual.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) Pref. To initiate young people in the elements of Physical Science.

3. intransitive.

a. To perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)]

initiate1725

to set (or start) the ball rolling1770

to take the initiative1856

to throw off1866

tee1961

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 564 The King himself initiates to the Pow'r; Scatters with quiv'ring hand the sacred flour, And the stream sprinkles.

b. To undergo or receive initiation.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > [verb (intransitive)] > receive imitation

initiate1896

1896 Daily News 16 June 6/3 Initiation into the ‘Mysteries’ was certainly a source of consolation to many of the greatest spirits of the ancient world. Cicero, who had initiated, said that they enabled man ‘to live happily and die with a fairer hope’.

Derivatives

iˈnitiating n. = initiation n. (in quot. 1750 attributive).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > teaching > [noun] > elementary teaching or initiation

introductionc1430

induction1526

entrance1571

initiation1583

manumission1596

groundinga1656

initiating1750

breaking-in1843

1750 W. Warburton Julian in Wks. (1811) VIII. 59 (note) He descended into the initiating cave.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	initiate
释义	initiateadj.n. Brit. /ɪˈnɪʃɪət/, U.S. /ᵻˈnɪʃiət/ Etymology: < Latin initiātus, past participle of initiāre to initiate v.; also treated as past participle of the latter (? as short for initiated adj.). A. adj. = initiated adj. 1. a. Admitted into some society, office, or position; instructed in some secret knowledge: see initiate v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] > instructed or dealing in curious1549 mysterious1583 initiatea1610 initiated1621 society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [adjective] > admitted into initiatea1610 initiated1621 initiative1656 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [adjective] > kept secret, esoteric > participating in initiatea1610 initiated1621 a1610 J. Healey in tr. Theophrastus Characters To Rdr., in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) The Athenians were..initiate or matriculated into these orders. 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 6 Initiate in the Secrets of the Skies? 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. I i. 89 With pointing finger guides the initiate youth. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 252 The symbolic meaning was left to be decyphered as before, and sacred to the Initiate. †b. transferred. Pertaining to one newly initiated; of or belonging to a novice or unpractised person. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > novice or beginner younglinga1250 novice1530 freshmanly1568 elementary1601 neophyte1601 initiatea1616 novitious1619 abecedarian1633 tironizinga1660 novitial1778 neophytic1856 neophytish1897 rookie1902 tironic1909 Sears-Roebuck1917 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 142 My strange & self-abuse Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse. View more context for this quotation 2. Begun, commenced, introduced: see initiate v. 1 tenant by the Curtesy initiate: see quot. 1767, and cf. quot. 1883 at initiate v. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [adjective] > that has (been) begun ybegunne?a1475 begun1483 broached1547 commenced1588 initiated1611 born1651 initiate1767 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. viii. 127 As soon..as any child was born, the father began to have a permanent interest in the lands,..and was called tenant by the curtesy initiate. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vii. 467 This worship [of the Virgin], already more than initiate, contributed..to the..violence with which the Nestorian controversy was agitated. B. n. 1. A person who has been initiated: see initiate v. 2. Hence, A beginner, a novice. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 1811 S. T. Coleridge Ess. Own Times (1850) 931 The merest initiate in reasoning will reply. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 204 When they see a respectable initiate losing his money. 1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 453 These alchemical initiates still hold themselves singularly high. 1873 E. E. Hale In his Name viii. 73 The significance of which among the initiates he well knew. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 32/3 Sulla, Antony, Cicero and his friend Atticus were initiates. †2. ? Something initiated or newly introduced: see initiate v. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > innovation or avant-gardism > an innovation novelty1395 novity1460 novation1501 innovation1548 initiate1603 introduction1603 renew1631 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 106 Having many new initiats to advaunce that stood you in more stead. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). initiatev. /ɪˈnɪʃɪeɪt/ Etymology: < Latin initiāt-, participial stem of initiāre to begin, initiate, < initium beginning. Compare French initier (14th cent. in Godefroy Compl.). 1. a. transitive. To begin, commence, enter upon; to introduce, set going, give rise to, originate, ‘start’ (a course of action, practice, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > give rise to makeOE breedc1200 wakea1325 wakenc1330 engendera1393 gendera1398 raisea1400 begetc1443 reara1513 ingener1513 ingenerate1528 to stir upc1530 yield1576 to pull ona1586 to brood up1586 to set afloat (on float)1586 spawn1594 innate1602 initiate1604 inbreed1605 irritate1612 to give rise to1630 to let in1655 to gig (out)1659 to set up1851 gin1887 the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)] beginc1175 baptizec1384 to set a (on) broachc1440 open1471 to set abroachc1475 entame1477 to set afloat1559 initiate1604 first1607 principiate1613 to set afoot or on foot1615 unclap1621 inchoatea1631 flush1633 to set on1638 principatec1650 rudiment1654 auspicate1660 embryonate1666 to strike up1711 start1723 institutea1797 float1833 spark1912 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] beginc1000 take?a1160 comsea1225 gina1325 commencec1330 tamec1386 to take upa1400 enterc1510 to stand to1567 incept1569 start1570 to set into ——1591 initiate1604 imprime1637 to get to ——1655 flesh1695 to start on ——1885 the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)] > begin or open (an action or proceeding) set?c1450 open1471 forward1598 initiate1604 to put in a way1624 to lead off1817 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Initiate, to begin, instruct, or enter into. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. x. i. 891/1 They feared (for that present) to initiate their attempt. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Life (1759) III. 554 Many secret Designs only initiated then and not executed till long after. 1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. ii. ii. 177 Feelings initiated within the body, including appetites, pains, &c. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 326 This king..initiated a trade with S. America. 1883 Wharton's Law-lexicon (ed. 7) 224 The husband's title to the curtesy is initiated at the birth of issue, and consummated at the death of his wife. b. intransitive. To take its beginning, commence. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > begin [verb (intransitive)] beginc1000 comsea1225 gin?c1225 becomsea1375 commencec1380 to take beginninga1400 enterc1425 to start up1568 initiatea1618 inchoate1654 dawn1716 to take in1845 to take up1846 to set in1848 a1618 J. Sylvester Mem. Mortalitie i The Grave..Where, end our Woes; our Joyes initiate. a1681 G. Wharton Fasts & Festivals in Wks. (1683) 2 The Neomeniæ, or Feasts of New-Moons, Celebrated the First day of every Month, initiating with the New-Moons. 1846 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces 35 While magnetism is thus progressive, some other force is acting on it, and therefore it does not initiate. 1963 S. Tolansky Introd. Atomic Physics (ed. 5) xxv. 423 If pure deuterium gas can be raised to a temperature of the order of 500 million degrees C., then a thermonuclear reaction should initiate. 1971 Nature 8 Jan. 111/2 Neutrons with incident wave vectors initiating within the cross-hatched area of the example shown satisfy the conditions for diffraction. 2. transitive. To admit (a person) with proper introductory rites or forms into some society or office, or to knowledge of or participation in some principles or observances, esp. of a secret or occult character; hence more generally, To introduce into acquaintance with something, to instruct in the elements of any subject or practice. Const. into, in (†to). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > ground or initiate foundc1394 groundc1405 introduce1475 induce1490 enter?1529 institutea1538 flesh1591 induct1603 initiate1603 principle1608 elementa1639 foundation1661 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1288 Those who are initiated and professed in this divine religion. a1617 P. Baynes Comm. First & Second Chapters Colossians (1634) 168 To initiate and to enter men into Christ. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia (new ed.) 24 My Lord of Essex..though initiated to Armes, and honoured by the Generall, in the Portugall expedition..loved him not in sincerity. 1683 J. Dryden Life Plutarch 41 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Plutarch Lives I Our author in his old age..initiated himself, in the Sacred Rities of Delphos. 1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. Pref. sig. A3 In Initiating young Students, nothing is more to be respected than Method. 1759 S. Johnson Prince of Abissinia I. viii. 53 At length my father resolved to initiate me in commerce. 1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel II. viii. xiii. 374 The..father..had him frequently at his house—initiated him betimes into his own high-born society. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 176 He is being initiated into the mysteries of the sophistical ritual. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) Pref. To initiate young people in the elements of Physical Science. 3. intransitive. a. To perform the first rite; to take the initiative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (intransitive)] initiate1725 to set (or start) the ball rolling1770 to take the initiative1856 to throw off1866 tee1961 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 564 The King himself initiates to the Pow'r; Scatters with quiv'ring hand the sacred flour, And the stream sprinkles. b. To undergo or receive initiation. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > [verb (intransitive)] > receive imitation initiate1896 1896 Daily News 16 June 6/3 Initiation into the ‘Mysteries’ was certainly a source of consolation to many of the greatest spirits of the ancient world. Cicero, who had initiated, said that they enabled man ‘to live happily and die with a fairer hope’. Derivatives iˈnitiating n. = initiation n. (in quot. 1750 attributive). ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [noun] > elementary teaching or initiation introductionc1430 induction1526 entrance1571 initiation1583 manumission1596 groundinga1656 initiating1750 breaking-in1843 1750 W. Warburton Julian in Wks. (1811) VIII. 59 (note) He descended into the initiating cave. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1603v.1603
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