initiatory
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That initiatory dinner consisted of mashed potatoes and jellied cranberry sauce from the can, a dish he loved because its sweet-and-sour flavor tasted faintly of home.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2016
With the main channel streaming white a few hundred yards ahead I settled to the oars for the sharp initiatory test I knew awaited us there.
From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
The very fact that repentance and faith were urged by Christ and his apostles, as the initiatory step to salvation, proves the opposite of this.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
Indeed we probably do injustice to the apostles themselves, in supposing that they considered their churches anything more than initiatory.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
"You see, that's the way to make a fortune, only I shouldn't advise you to go further than the initiatory lesson."
From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Richard Marsh
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