initiatory

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=i=ti=a=to=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

initiatory, a. 

•  Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step.  Bp. Hall.  [1913 Webster]
•  Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.  [1913 Webster]

  "Some initiatory treatises in the law."  [1913 Webster]

  "Two initiatory rites of the same general import can not exist together."  [1913 Webster]

initiatory, n. 

 An introductory act or rite.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

initiatory

Beginning

N beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation, introduction, alpha, initial, inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain, maiden speech, outbreak, onset, brunt, initiative, move, first move, narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge, fresh start, new departure, origin, source, rise, bud, germ, egg, rudiment, genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy, start, inception, creation, starting point, dawn, evolution, title-page, head, heading, van, caption, fatihah, entrance, entry, inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door, gate, gateway, postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule, propylaeum, skirts, border, first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight, rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC, beginning, initial, initiatory, initiative, inceptive, introductory, incipient, proemial, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, embryonic, rudimental, primogenial, primeval, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, natal, nascent, first, foremost, leading, maiden, begun, just begun, at the beginning, in the beginning first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost, in limine, in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy, from the beginning, from its birth, ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine, let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at 'em!, aller Anfang ist schwer, dimidium facti qui coepit habet, omnium rerum principia parva sunt.