initiatory rite

noun as in rite of passage

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The Mosaic polity made the status of its subjects, their relation to the Divine covenant, to depend on this initiatory rite.

They offered him a cup of liquor prepared from the choicest medicines, at once as a propitiation and an initiatory rite.

The initiatory rite was essential to full participation in the Covenant.

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