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Example sentences for "initiated"

Lexicographically close words:
initialed; initialled; initially; initials; initiate; initiates; initiating; initiation; initiations; initiative
  1. As for the miserable Celinda, she became more and more addicted to the vices in which she had been initiated by his superlative perfidy and craft, until she was quite abandoned by decency and caution.

  2. A strike initiated by workers without authorization of a union, or in violation of the work contract currently in force.

  3. The presiding priest who initiated candidates at the Eleusinian mysteries; hence, one who teaches the mysteries and duties of religion.

  4. For some reason the movement for justice thus initiated did not continue, but suffered a sad interruption down almost to our own times.

  5. It was a spontaneous movement in the sense of being initiated by the tenants and not merely forced upon them.

  6. The age is a commercial one in the more fundamental sense that large economic changes are initiated by classes and individuals.

  7. On a large scale we can see this force at work in the movements initiated by St. Francis of Assisi and St. Dominic respectively, or, to take a more recent example, in the Methodist revival in the Church of England.

  8. A subsequent abbot, Simon de Gorham, initiated the custom that the abbot should always maintain one writer in the scriptorium at his own expense.

  9. For so this god is entitled by the initiated who say that he kindles the torches for wise Attis.

  10. On the 2nd October the enemy initiated a general withdrawal on the front from Lens to Armentières.

  11. This might have initiated an extremely critical situation but for a powerful counter-attack organised and launched by Brig.

  12. The movement initiated by St. Francis proclaimed anew the divine grace and love.

  13. Every year, as we saw, men went to be initiated into the rites of Demeter at Eleusis, a few miles from Athens.

  14. If this be done, not only will overlapping of work in the various classes and lessons be avoided, but a driving force of musical comradeship will be initiated which will produce a genuine musical atmosphere.

  15. Efforts to make peace, initiated by Pope Innocent VI.

  16. At length the time arrived, and I was baptized by Mr. Scranton, and duly initiated into the Baptist society; being about eighteen years of age.

  17. The number of men composing the settlement and performing all this work, did not exceed one hundred and twenty all told including old men, boys and Indian servants, just being tamed and initiated into the first rudiments of industry.

  18. Thither the boys who are to be initiated are conducted blindfolded, followed by their parents and relations.

  19. The initiated recount marvels of the ceremony, saying that they are roasted, that they entirely change their habits and life, and that they receive a spirit quite different from that of other people and quite new lights.

  20. But institutions like totemism are not resorted to merely on special occasions of danger; they are systems into which every one, or at least every male, is obliged to be initiated at a certain period of life.

  21. The boys are admitted to it very young, but are not fully initiated till their fourteenth year, when they receive from the Tubuvan a terrible blow with a cane, which is supposed to kill them.

  22. There are always some of the initiated beside the novices to instruct them.

  23. I returned him thanks in his own tongue, and so became initiated among them.

  24. The managers of the scheme indicated in the latter part of the speech initiated a totally different bill in each House, apparently liberal and comprehensive in character, but yet objectionable in detail.

  25. Possibly some wanderer to Palestine and the East or to the Saracenic settlements in the South of Europe, or some stranger from these "foreign parts," may have initiated the German potters in the higher secrets of the art.

  26. Even admitting that the Saracens who settled in Sicily, and the Moors expelled from Spain who settled in Italy, initiated the Italians in the art, nothing is thereby detracted from the importance of Majorca.

  27. By them the Gangeddulu are branded on the shoulder with the emblems of the chank and chakram, and initiated into the mysteries of the Dasari priesthood.

  28. They are initiated into the Bairava cult by their priest.

  29. If the deceased has been initiated into the Bairava cult, puja (worship) must be done at the grave every alternate day from the third day till the bojja day.

  30. Church has always, in Latin countries, been the scene of a good deal of quiet flirtation, and I remember one Sunday morning, in the Cathedral of Havana, being initiated by a friend into the mysteries of fan language.

  31. It was initiated by a Chinese historian one hundred years B.


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