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

An unusual amount of care has been bestowed on the initiatory stages, the definitions, axioms, and postulates being treated with commendable fulness....

From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward

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 Fisk, Wilbur

The alteration of this initiatory principle produces corresponding modifications, and even total changes, in the character of the civilization.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

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 Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)