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Apostle :: Apostle (n.) The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance..

Initiated :: Initiated (imp. & p. p.) of Initiat.

Initiate :: Initiate (v. i.) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To initiate; to introduce favorably.

Initiate :: Initiate (n.) One who is, or is to be, initiated..

Fleshed :: Fleshed (a.) Glutted; satiated; initiated.

Initiate :: Initiate (v. t.) To introduce into a society or organization; to confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies..

Initiate :: Initiate (a.) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted..

Initiate :: Initiate (v. t.) To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

Affiliate :: Affiliate (v. t.) To attach (to) or unite (with); to receive into a society as a member, and initiate into its mysteries, plans, etc.; -- followed by to or with..

Initiatory :: Initiatory (a.) Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary..

Flesh :: Flesh (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time..

Hierophant :: Hierophant (n.) The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion..

Cryptonym :: Cryptonym (n.) A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.

Initiator :: Initiator (n.) One who initiates.

Initiate :: Initiate (v. t.) To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.

Initiate :: Initiate (a.) Unpracticed; untried; new.

Mystery :: Mystery (a.) A kind of secret religious celebration, to which none were admitted except those who had been initiated by certain preparatory ceremonies; -- usually plural; as, the Eleusinian mysteries..

Esoteric :: Esoteric (a.) Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric..

Initiative :: Initiative (a.) Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

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