initiate
verb (used with object)
to begin, set going, or originate.
uninitiate
-
a word derived from
initiate.
Example Sentences
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Plus, coming into “Dune: Prophecy” as a stone-cold uninitiate is a challenge for which the script compensates using a combination of summary via narration and a brief, expository title card.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2024
Without hearing a shot fired, a man could, by arranging his area ribbons, marksmanship medals, cheap commendations and awards, appear in the eyes of the uninitiate as a combination Sergeant York-Commando Kelly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the uninitiate can be sure that the victim will not be Guest Star Eva Gabor.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Francis P. Garvan signs a check, document or letter with his swift script, which reads to the uninitiate Francis P. Gaway, his signature stands for himself & wife.
From Time Magazine Archive
Happy is he among deathly men who hath beheld these things! and he that is uninitiate, and hath no lot in them, hath never equal lot in death beneath the murky gloom.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
