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单词 initiation
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initiationn.

/ɪnɪʃɪˈeɪʃən/
Etymology: < Latin initiātiōn-em, noun of action < initiāre to initiate v. Compare French initiation (15th cent. in Godefroy Compl.).
The action of initiating, or fact of being initiated.
1. The action of beginning, entering upon, or ‘starting’ something; the fact of being begun; beginning, commencement, origination.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]
ordeOE
thresholdeOE
frumthc950
anginOE
frumeOE
worthOE
beginninga1225
springc1225
springc1225
commencementc1250
ginninga1300
comsingc1325
entryc1330
aginning1340
alphac1384
incomea1400
formec1400
ingressc1420
birtha1425
principlea1449
comsementa1450
resultancec1450
inition1463
inceptiona1483
entering1526
originala1529
inchoation1530
opening1531
starting1541
principium1550
entrance1553
onset1561
rise1589
begin1590
ingate1591
overture1595
budding1601
initiationa1607
starting off1616
dawninga1631
dawn1633
impriminga1639
start1644
fall1647
initial1656
outset1664
outsettinga1698
going off1714
offsetting1782
offset1791
commence1794
aurora1806
incipiency1817
set-out1821
set-in1826
throw-off1828
go-off1830
outstart1844
start1857
incipience1864
oncome1865
kick-off1875
off-go1886
off1896
get-go1960
lift-off1967
a1607 T. Brightman Predictions & Prophecies (1641) 3 The Church of Germanie had its initiation or beginning in Martin Luther..in..1517.
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 132 The Parliament..had granted but one Subsidy since the initiation of King James his reign.
1850 W. R. Grove On Correlation Physical Forces (ed. 2) 73 We must ever refer them back to some antecedent force..and therefore the word initiation cannot in strictness apply.
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty iii. 119 The initiation of all wise or noble things, comes and must come from individuals; generally at first from some one individual.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. vi. 43 Concerned in the initiation of Parliamentary measures.
2. Formal introduction by preliminary instruction or initial ceremony into some position, office, or society, or to knowledge of or participation in some principles or observances; hence generally, Admission to the knowledge, or instruction in the elements, of any subject or practice.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > [noun] > elementary teaching or initiation
introductionc1430
induction1526
entrance1571
initiation1583
manumission1596
groundinga1656
initiating1750
breaking-in1843
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. L6 At the time of their initiation, institution, induction, and admission [into a benefice].
1610 Bp. J. Hall Common Apol. against Brownists §6 In the first of these is required indeede a solemne initiation by baptisme.
1659 Order in Commons, Bernard Inn in Notes & Queries 7th Ser. II. 302/1 Some young Gentlemen of this House have lately had disorderly Meetings which they call ‘Initiations’.
1780 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 25 May Bath is a good place for the initiation of a young lady.
1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) xvi. 268 A large school is a most valuable initiation into actual life.

Compounds

General attributive.
initiation ceremony n.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > initiatory > [noun]
initiatory1675
Upanayana1817
Yeibichai1887
initiation ceremony1899
1899 W. B. Spencer & F. J. Gillen Native Tribes Central Austral. vii. 212 All Australian natives, with rare exceptions, have to pass through some initiation ceremony before being admitted to the secrets of the tribe.
1935 B. Malinowski Coral Gardens II. vi. 234 The instruction may take place in the course of initiation ceremonies.
1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization ii. 47 Economic, ritual, and recreational affairs..are often difficult to disentangle within a complex institutional sequence of events, such as an initiation ceremony.
initiation fee n.
ΚΠ
1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 29 To become a gildsman..it was necessary to pay certain initiation-fees.
initiation process n.
ΚΠ
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 531 They always take a new name, and are supposed by the initiation process to become new beings in the magic wood.
initiation rite n.
ΚΠ
1916 H. B. Alexander N. Amer. Mythol. xi. 243 A myth which seems clearly reminiscent of initiation rites.
1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory (1938) xi. 180 Boys' initiation rites probably involve circumcision.
1974 ‘S. Woods’ Done to Death 186 Tribal initiation rites in one of the Indian reservations in the United States.

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Chemistry. A process which begins a chain reaction; spec. the use of a reactive species to begin a polymerization reaction.
ΚΠ
1936 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 155 694 We represent polymerization as a chain reaction comprising (i) initiation..(ii) propagation..(iii) termination.
1967 D. Margerison & G. C. East Introd. Polymer Chem. iv. 154 Isobutene cannot be polymerized using free radical initiation.
1985 A. Streitwieser & C. H. Heathcock Introd. Org. Chem. xxxiv. 1114 In anionic polymerization, initiation is accomplished by addition of a nucleophile to a carbon-carbon double bond.
2002 Q. Zhou et al. in R. Krishnamoorti & R. A. Vaia Polymer Nanocomposites v. 45 The surface properties and chemistry involved in the initiation process may dramatically affect a living polymerization mechanism.

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initiation codon n. Molecular Biology a codon that signals the beginning of the synthesis of a polypeptide chain, esp. the beginning of translation.
ΚΠ
1966 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 56 1583 Factors which might primarily influence the specific interaction between a unique species of Met-tRNA and an initiation codon.
1990 EMBO Jrnl. 9 2639/1 The BM2 protein initiation codon overlaps with the termination codon of the M1 protein.
2000 B. Lewin Genes VII i. 26/2 A sequence that is translated into protein has a reading frame that starts with a special initiation codon (AUG) and that extends through a series of triplets representing amino acids.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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