Initiate: alternatives and connections

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

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One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade…

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A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.

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One who enters; a beginner.

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A young bird just fledged.

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novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.

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A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.

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One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.

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One who learns; a scholar.

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A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.

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A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Ch…

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One who has lately come.

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An apprentice.

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One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.

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A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.

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To make active.

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To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.

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To aim; to direct.

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To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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of Find

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of Grind

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To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act.

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Established; organized; founded.

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To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.

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A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter;…

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A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Alt. of Plough

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To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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of Set

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A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.

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A floor or story of a house.

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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A catch to hold the wheel of a carriage on a declivity.

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To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.

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To take upon one's self; to engage in; to enter upon; to take in hand; to begin to perform; to set about; to attempt.

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To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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Created; composed; begotten.

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To break to pieces; to shatter.

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To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.

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To leap; to jump.

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To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.

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To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.

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The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.

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The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.

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Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.

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Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.

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One who instigates or incites.

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One who instigates or incites.

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The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

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The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

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The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.

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Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.

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One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.

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A spit.

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To bring in; to introduce; to usher in.

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One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.

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A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any cl…

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A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.

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To leap; to jump.

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Same as Tyro.

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A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.

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To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

Initiate overlaps with begin, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.

To leap; to jump.

Initiate means formally causing a process or action to begin.