Definition of Initiations

1. Noun. (plural of initiation) ¹

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Definition of Initiations

1. initiation [n] - See also: initiation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Initiations

initials
initiand
initiate
initiated
initiates
initiating
initiating codon
initiation
initiation ceremonies
initiation ceremony
initiation codon
initiation complex
initiation factor
initiation factors
initiation tRNA
initiations
initiative
initiatives
initiator
initiatories
initiators
initiatory
initing
inition
initis
inits
inject
injectability
injectable
injectables

Literary usage of Initiations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... and immoral ceremonies of these initiations to manhood, womanhood, and often at the same time to nubility, with almost no interval after the first ..."

2. The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries by Charles William Heckethorn (1897)
"The more the society extended, chiefly by the ambitious schemes of Cerinthus, the more such initiations increased, and thus there gradually arose in the ..."

3. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall (1895)
"The system reached its height in the seventeenth century, and long defied all the efforts of Professors and Governments to put it down ". initiations In ..."

4. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Beggary and Blasphemy disallowed—Initiations—Fines for the Non-Payment of Dues—Work or Starve—Contributions to Valuable Knowledge by French, Austrian, ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1898)
"Initiations INTO ADOLESCENCE. BY G. STANLEY HALL. AFTER finishing a book soon to be published on adolescence, its physiology, diseases, crime, psychology, ..."

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