initiatory
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
initiatory
adj 1: serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural
issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an
initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden)
speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn:
{inaugural}, {initiative}, {initiatory}, {first},
{maiden}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Initiatory \In*i"ti*a*to*ry\, a.
1. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory;
prefatory; as, an initiatory step. --Bp. Hall.
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2. Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by
instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or
ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.
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Some initiatory treatises in the law. --Herbert.
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Two initiatory rites of the same general import can
not exist together. --J. M. Mason.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "initiatory":
abecedarian, aboriginal, antecedent, antenatal, anterior,
autochthonous, autodidactic, baptismal, beginning, budding, chief,
coeducational, creative, cultural, didactic, disciplinary,
edifying, educating, educational, educative, elemental, elementary,
embryonic, enlightening, exhortatory, exordial, fetal, first,
foremost, formative, foundational, fundamental, gestatory,
headmost, homiletic, hortatory, illuminating, in embryo,
in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate,
inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, informative,
initial, initiative, instructive, introductive, introductory,
inventive, leading, lecturing, nascent, natal, original,
parturient, postnatal, preaching, precedent, preceding, preceptive,
precessional, precursory, prefatory, pregnant, preliminary,
preludial, prelusive, prenatal, preparatory, prevenient, primal,
primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, prior,
procreative, proemial, propaedeutic, rudimental, rudimentary,
self-teaching, teaching, tuitionary, ur
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