(transitive) 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.

simple past tense and past participle of initiate

A beginning; a first move. / A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem. / The ability to act first or on one's own.

Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary. / In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of initial

An abbreviation of a person's name, constructed by taking the initial letters of first, last, and sometimes middle name(s). See monogram

plural of initialism

plural of initial

plural of initiative

plural of initiate