initiate
verb (used with object)
to begin, set going, or originate.
had been initiating
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past perfect progressiveof initiate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Ben, in the meantime, had been initiating Jasper into the mysteries of cutting the wood, the tool-house, and all the surroundings of the "little brown house."
From Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
I did not mention that Rama had been initiating disciples with names—Prema, Hanuman, Arjuna—taken from Hindu mythology.
From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Mark Eliot Laxer
