Adjective : an initiatory step toward a treaty. From Dictionary.com.
But the really true virtue is a purification from all such things, and temperance, justice, fortitude and wisdom itself, are a kind of initiatory purification 38. From Wordnik.com. [Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates] Reference
Yet the woman who resents not initiatory freedoms must be lost. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
The initiatory for a state organization was taken by the Woman's. From Wordnik.com. [Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York] Reference
The course of life is settled at the time of the initiatory rites. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
These two despatches were the initiatory steps in sending the Fifth. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
“And show me how they calculated the initiatory speed of our car?”. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
The woman, he observes, who resents not initiatory freedoms, must be lost. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Sacrifice is the foremost of all initiatory rites, and Maghavat of the deities. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Even the initiatory competitive examination would then be an insufficient security. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Government] Reference
This is hailed as the initiatory step toward the withdrawal of the British protectorate. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
“So be it,” said Michel; “but, once more; how could they calculate the initiatory speed?”. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
His initiatory steps in teaching special students of natural history were not a little discouraging. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction] Reference
Here the operator undergoes the experience of an initiatory death and this is followed by a resurrection. From Wordnik.com. [Alchemy] Reference
When I wrote you I thought I had it; whereas I was merely entering upon the initiatory difficulties of it. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
Here the operator undergoes the experience of an initiatory death and this is followed by a resur - rection. From Wordnik.com. [ALCHEMY] Reference
Scientific or rigorously precise point of view, than that of Hegel, is the initiatory proposition of UNIVERSOLOGY. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
After the preliminary examination a student who is to take the regular course of study enters the initiatory room. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
And having bestowed his kingdom on Puru, the monarch performed the initiatory ceremonies for retiring into the woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
When Madeline entered the presence of Lucian Davlin, she took the initiatory step in the part she was henceforth to play. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
Many of these ideas have been taken up by the free-masons, and are typified and symbolised in their initiatory ceremonies. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851] Reference
If, then, we had an initiatory speed of 12,000 yards, on leaving the atmosphere this speed would be reduced to 9,165 yards. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Moon] Reference
Then Vasudeva of great renown said, 'We should, as an initiatory act of blessedness, remain out of the camp for this night.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
It is a subject for congratulation that the great Empire of Brazil has taken the initiatory step toward the abolition of slavery. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
With it the people of Fitchburg deeply sympathized, and in the initiatory proceedings they took an active, though a prudent part. From Wordnik.com. [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 4, January, 1885] Reference
Mounted drill, riding bare-back, with nothing but a halter chain as a bridle, was the initiatory degree of Battery D's equitation. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
Upon completion of a certain amount of preliminary practices, actual engagement in tantric practice requires an initiatory ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [Basic Features of Tantra] Reference
Rather than a freaky aberration, the 1960s might be considered the first phase of an initiatory process for the modern Western psyche. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Pinchbeck: Toward 2012] Reference
He describes his approach, Waking Down in Mutuality, as "not formally psychotherapeutic, but rather initiatory and mutually grounding.". From Wordnik.com. [Arjuna Ardagh: Awakening and Mending] Reference
The baptism of John, considered as a ceremony of consecration for the coming kingdom, was parallel rather to the initiatory oaths of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
The Diksha consists of the initiatory rites undergone by one desirous of performing a particular sacrifice or completing a particular vow. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
This salvation from the common lot of mankind after death depended primarily upon the magical efficacy of the initiatory rites performed at. From Wordnik.com. [SIN AND SALVATION] Reference
The drum beats, all prostrate themselves; the drum again beats, and the initiatory ceremony is concluded; the crowd is motionless; all face to the east. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
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