Initiation in the knowledge of a subject; instruction in rudiments, elementary teaching. Obsolete.

The action of introducing to, or initiating in, the knowledge of something; the process of being initiated; introduction, initiation.

Initiation into or acquisition of learning or knowledge. Esp. with reference to learning language or learning to read. Later chiefly with into.

Formal introduction by preliminary instruction or initial ceremony into some position, office, or society, or to knowledge of or participation in…

Initiation. Obsolete.

The act of instructing in elementary or fundamental principles; instruction of this kind.

= initiation, n. (in quot. 1750 attributive).

In woollen manufacture, the operation by which short combed slivers are combined and made into continuous lengths. Also breaking-in.