initiatory
Example Sentences
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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 Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
As the initiatory formula usual in the epistles of Paul is wanting in this, it has been questioned whether it was really an epistle, or only a discourse intended for the general reader.
From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by Reber, George
Many whose names are now prominent in histrionic art took the initiatory steps in their career under Mr. Drake’s regime here.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben
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 Noyes, John Humphrey
