initiate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To begin; to start.

   “How are changes of this sort to be initiated?”

2. fiil To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.

   “Divine Providence would only initiate and enter mankind into the useful knowledge of her, leaving the rest to employ our industry.”

3. fiil To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.

   “The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honour after death.”

4. fiil To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

   “The king himself initiates to the power; Scatters with quivering hand the sacred flour, And the stream sprinkles.”

5. isim A new member of an organization.
6. isim One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
7. isim One who is oriented in and familiar with a topic or subject; especially, one who is an expert in it.
8. sıfat Unpracticed, untried, new.

   “the initiate fear that wants hard use”

9. sıfat Begun, commenced, introduced to or in the rudiments (of), newly admitted.

   “To rise in science as in bliss, / Initiate in the secrets of the skies.”