All 3 Uses

initiate
in
A Long Way Gone
(Edited)

Sweeping an arm in our direction, one of the rebels announced, "We are going to initiate all of you by killing these people in front of you."
p. 34.7 *

initiate = begin a period of instruction and/or testing required to accept someone's membership into an organization
Alhaji and I gave the three other boys a few minutes to take their positions before we started crawling even closer to the village to initiate the attack.
p. 143.1 *

initiate = begin
Maybe it is your initiation to the white people's world.
p. 197.8

initiation = a process of accepting someone as a member of a group--perhaps including a period of instruction, a test, and/or a ceremony

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)