initiate
noun/ɪˈnɪʃiət/
/ɪˈnɪʃiət/
- a person who has been allowed to join a particular group, organization, or religion and is learning its rules and secretsWord Originmid 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from Latin initiat- ‘begun’, from the verb initiare, from initium ‘beginning’.
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