All 3 Uses of
initiate
in
After the First Death
- His first major assignment, his initiation into the brotherhood, and now it was being set aside.†
Part 2initiation = the process of accepting someone's membership though a special procedure such as a ceremony and/or period of instruction and/or test
- She was my initiation and cheated me out of it.†
Part 4 *
- He had been jealous before, simply because he was always the youngest, the uninitiated.†
Part 4 *uninitiated = not startedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninitiated means not and reverses the meaning of initiated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definitions:
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(1)
(initiate as in: initiate discussions) to cause (something) to begin
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(2)
(initiate as in: initiate into the art of drumming) introduce to an activity or area of knowledge
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(initiate as in: initiate into the fraternity) to accept someone's membership into an organization -- typically in a ceremony -- sometimes including a period of instruction and/or test
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(initiate as in: She is a new initiate.) someone who has formally started in an organization, or been introduced to or attained some expertise in a particular field