All 12 Uses

initiate
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The Throne of Fire
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The rest of the trainees would be off researching their own paths of magic, practicing enchantments, or doing regular schoolwork under the supervision of our college-age initiates.
Chpt 5

initiates = potential new members
You've taken your trainees further in two months than most First Nome initiates would get in two years.
Chpt 6
I'd spent three months teaching and turning our initiates into a team.
Chpt 17 *
We have fewer initiates every year.
Chpt 17
When I graduated from initiate training, Menshikov requested I be assigned to his nome.
Chpt 18

initiate = potential new member
I'd seen initiates use them in the First Nome, but they'd always seemed pretty difficult to master.†
Chpt 6
I could get up and have a lovely breakfast with my friends, Amos, Philip of Macedonia, and Khufu, then spend the day teaching our initiates how to turn each other into reptiles.†
Chpt 12
Meanwhile, Amos and our rookie initiates were left alone at Brooklyn House, preparing to defend against Vlad Menshikov, a magician so ruthless, he was on a secret-name basis with the god of evil.†
Chpt 12
I'd left Amos and our initiates alone at Brooklyn House to defend against the most evil magician in the world.†
Chpt 13
I imagined Menshikov turning our young initiates into helpless snakes.†
Chpt 17
Everywhere I looked, our initiates were ruling the day.†
Chpt 23
Our initiates knew the hi-nehm spell well enough to fix most of the other broken things.†
Chpt 24

Definitions:

(1) (initiate as in: initiate discussions)
to cause (something) to begin
(2) (initiate as in: initiate into the art of drumming)
introduce to an activity or area of knowledge
(3) (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
(4) (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
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)