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initiatory, a. (n.)|ɪˈnɪʃɪətərɪ|
[f. initiāt-, ppl. stem of L. initiāre to initiate + -ory.]
1. Such as pertains to or constitutes the beginning or first steps; initial, introductory, opening, first.
1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl. O.T. x. iii, It hath been euer the fashion of God, to exercise his champions with some initiatory incounters. 1710Steele Tatler No. 234 ⁋5, I found..the principal Defect of our English Discipline to lie in the Initiatory Part. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 545 Prepared for that result by the initiatory sentence. 1875Stubbs Const. Hist. I. iii. 51 The initiatory stage of legal proceedings may well have been gone through.
2. Pertaining or tending to initiation; serving to initiate into some society, or some special knowledge or study: see initiate v. 2, initiation 2.
1632G. Herbert Country Parson xxiii, He hath gotten to himself some insight in things ordinarily incident and controverted..by reading some initiatory Treatises in the Law. 1734A. Young Idol. Corrupt. Relig. I. 46 (T.) It being the initiatory rite of their religion. 1740Warburton Div. Legat. vi. i. Wks. 1811 V. 291 Which he did by the initiatory Rite of water-baptism. 1833J. H. Newman Arians i. iii. (1875) 53 The Manichees represented the initiatory discipline as founded on a fiction or hypothesis. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 532 The girls go into the wood or initiatory hut for a few months before marriage.
B. n. Something that serves to initiate; an initiatory rite.
1675L. Addison State of Jews 65 Baptism is a constant initiatory of the Proselyte.
Hence iˈnitiatorily adv., in an initiatory manner.
1652Sparke Prim. Devot. (1663) 148 And so sufficiently initiatorily to make good that of the Psalmist, Kings shall bring gifts. |