01 a. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step.
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Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step.
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Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.“Some initiatory treatises in the law.” — Herbert.“Two initiatory rites of the same general import can not exist together.” — J. M. Mason.