initiate

Meanings

Noun

• A new member of an organization.
• One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.

Verb

• To begin; to start.
• To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
• To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
• To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

Adjective

• Unpractised; untried; new.
• Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.

Related

Opposite words

• end, conclude, complete, finish

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin initiātus, perfect passive participle of initiō, from initium, from ineō, from in + eō.