initiatory
[adjective]
Synonyms: initial, beginning, inceptive, incipient, initiative, introductory, nascent

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initiatory adjective. [ɪ'nɪʃɪǝt(ǝ)ri, ɪ,nɪʃɪ'eɪt(ǝ)ri] E17.
[from INITIATE verb + -ORY².]
1. Pertaining to or constituting a beginning; initial, introductory, preliminary. E17.
■ T. Hardy Those automatic initiatory acts and touches which represent among housewives the installation of another day.

2. Pertaining to initiation; serving to initiate into some society, position, or special knowledge. M17.
■ W. Warburton Which he did by the initiatory Rite of water-baptism.

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