Initiatory

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Initiatory \In*i"ti*a*to*ry\, n.
     An introductory act or rite. [R.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Initiatory \In*i"ti*a*to*ry\, a.
     1. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory;
        prefatory; as, an initiatory step. --Bp. Hall.
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     2. Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by
        instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or
        ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.
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              Some initiatory treatises in the law. --Herbert.
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              Two initiatory rites of the same general import can
              not exist together.                   --J. M. Mason.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  initiatory
       adj : serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue";
             "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an
             initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or
             maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden
             voyage" [syn: {inaugural}, {initiative}, {first}, {maiden}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "initiatory":
     abecedarian, aboriginal, antecedent, antenatal, anterior,
     autochthonous, autodidactic, baptismal, beginning, budding, chief,
     coeducational, creative, cultural, didactic, disciplinary,
     edifying, educating, educational, educative, elemental, elementary,
     embryonic, enlightening, exhortatory, exordial, fetal, first,
     foremost, formative, foundational, fundamental, gestatory,
     headmost, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, in embryo,
     in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate,
     inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, informative,
     initial, initiative, instructive, introductive, introductory,
     inventive, leading, lecturing, nascent, natal, original,
     parturient, postnatal, preaching, precedent, preceding, preceptive,
     precessional, precursory, prefatory, pregnant, preliminary,
     preludial, prelusive, prenatal, preparatory, prevenient, primal,
     primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, prior,
     procreative, proemial, propaedeutic, rudimental, rudimentary,
     self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary, ur