2. Verb. (third-person singular of initiate) ¹
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Definition of Initiates
1. initiate [v] - See also: initiate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Initiates
Literary usage of Initiates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"Hence there is a great distance between the admission that some Hebrews were
initiates, and the conclusion that because of this the Hebrew Bible must be the ..."
2. The Satapatha-brâhmana: According to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School by Julius Eggeling (1900)
"He then initiates the Potri for the Brahman, for under him the former is. ...
or some one else who is not initiated, then initiates the ..."
3. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... •Christ—Tiberius Friendly—Men at the Head of the Movement all initiates—The
Word—Hebrew History—Abgar Letters—All Known of the Circumstance—Anger of the ..."
4. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1888)
"The Senate initiates legislative measures; the consuls convene the centuries,
and the tribunes convene the tribes, to sanction them.—Thu nobles, the Senate, ..."
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