单词 | initiatory |
释义 | initiatoryadj.n. A. adj. 1. Such as pertains to or constitutes the beginning or first steps; initial, introductory, opening, first. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [adjective] initiatory1615 initiative1795 ice-breaking1824 breaking1853 1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. x. 217 It hath been euer the fashion of God, to exercise his Champions with some initiatory incounters. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 234. ⁋5 I found..the principal Defect of our English Discipline to lie in the Initiatory Part. 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 545 Prepared for that result by the initiatory sentence. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) 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 n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > [adjective] > elementary or initiation initiatorya1633 initiating1651 a1633 G. Herbert Priest to Temple (1652) xxiii. 94 He hath gotten to himself some insight in things ordinarily incident and controverted..by reading some initiatory Treatises in the Law. 1734 A. Young Idolatrous Corrupt. I. 46 (T.) It being the initiatory rite of their religion. 1754 W. Warburton Princ. Nat. & Revealed Relig. II. x. 95 The initiatory Rite of Baptism. 1833 J. H. Newman Arians 4th Cent. i. 58 The Manichees, who represented the initiatory discipline as founded on a fiction or hypothesis. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 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. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > kinds of rite > initiatory > [noun] initiatory1675 Upanayana1817 Yeibichai1887 initiation ceremony1899 1675 L. Addison Present State Jews 65 Baptism is a constant initiatory of the Proselyte. Derivatives iˈnitiatorily adv. in an initiatory manner. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [adverb] initiatively1642 initiatorily1652 1652 E. Sparke Scintillula Altaris (1663) 148 And so sufficiently initiatorily to make good that of the Psalmist, Kings shall bring gifts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < adj.n.1615 |
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