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Initiatory
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What's The Definition Of 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Initiatory: first | inaugural | initiative | maiden | opening Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Initiatory In Webster's Dictionary \In*i"ti*a*to*ry\, a.
1. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory;
prefatory; as, an initiatory step. --Bp. Hall.
2. Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by
instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or
ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.
Some initiatory treatises in the law. --Herbert.
Two initiatory rites of the same general import can
not exist together. --J. M. Mason.
\In*i"ti*a*to*ry\, n. An introductory act or rite. [R.] |
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