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initiation

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun initiation has 4 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

initiationn. [L. initiatio: cf. F. initiation.].
  •  The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.  Pope.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.  [1913 Webster]
    "Silence is the first thing that is taught us at our initiation into sacred mysteries."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

initiation

abecedarium, abecedary, acceptance, admission, admittance, anchorage, and arithmetic, baccalaureate service, baptism, beginning, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, colonization, coming out, commencement, convocation, curtain raiser, debut, elementary education, elements, embarkation, embarkment, empty formality, enlistment, enrollment, entrance, establishment, exercise, exercises, first appearance, first steps, fixation, floating, flotation, formal, formality, foundation, function, graduation, graduation exercises, hornbook, immission, inaugural, inaugural address, inauguration, inception, induction, installation, installment, instatement, institution, introduction, intromission, investiture, launching, liturgy, lodgment, maiden speech, mooring, mummery, observance, office, opener, ordination, origination, peopling, performance, plantation, population, preliminary, primer, propaedeutic, reading, religious ceremony, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, rudiments, service, settlement, settling, solemnity, solemnization, unveiling, writing

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initiation

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.

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