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Example sentences for "initiatory"

Lexicographically close words:
initiations; initiative; initiatives; initiator; initiators; initio; initium; iniuriam; iniurie; iniuries
  1. As early as the 15th of August ensuing--in less than one hundred days after the suspension--the banks of New York took the initiatory steps towards resuming.

  2. They would not agree to any definite time to take even initiatory steps towards resumption.

  3. He had been afraid that the initiatory stage of the work might have been only too well accomplished.

  4. The letter had been written as the initiatory step toward incriminating him, Billy Kane, in the robbery that was to follow; and this demanded, even as he had argued before, that the vault and safe combinations should be known to a third party.

  5. The same thing may be done with a sentence from any book, although not so systematically prepared for the purpose as the Initiatory Catechisms have been.

  6. The "First Initiatory Catechism" has also been found of great benefit to the young; and which is very easily and successfully taught by means of its Key.

  7. Upon these principles the Initiatory Catechisms and their Keys have been formed, together with the several Helps for communicating Scriptural knowledge.

  8. It is not denied that the doctrine of this being is now concealed from children and women, and revealed to lads at the Bora, or initiatory mystery.

  9. To honour him boys' front teeth are knocked out in the initiatory stages.

  10. The ceremonies included initiatory mysteries, like the Bora of the Australian blacks.

  11. These tribes practise the Bora rites or initiatory mysteries.

  12. This he will soon understand, if he has been properly instructed with an associate in the initiatory lesson described in 45.

  13. Making a first-rate retriever is a work of time, but his being thoroughly grounded in the required initiatory lessons facilitates matters surprisingly.

  14. The first that springs up near him will test the perfection to which he has attained in his initiatory lessons.

  15. Unreasonableness of not always giving Initiatory Lessons--leads to Punishment--thence to Blinking.

  16. Now you will see that the initiatory lessons I recommend must give him that knowledge, for they explain to him the meaning of almost all the signs and words of command you will have to employ when shooting.

  17. As an initiatory lesson in making him observant of the flight and fall of birds, place a few pigeons, or other birds, during his absence, each in a hole covered with a tile.

  18. You must not, however, practise this initiatory lesson too frequently, lest you give him the wretched custom of pottering.

  19. Initiatory Lessons save time--make Dogs fond of Hunting.

  20. As I before observed, you can practise most of the initiatory lessons in your country walks.

  21. I trust you will not object to the minutiae of these initiatory lessons, and fancy you have not time to attend to them.

  22. The Speaker then said that Sir James Graham was quite right, that he was strictly within rule in not uncovering until the initiatory word of the Message was delivered.

  23. But the Australians are distinguished by possessing elaborate initiatory ceremonies.

  24. On my return we organized as advised, wrote out an outline of our new institution and submitted it to the ordinary of this diocese, the initiatory step of all such undertakings.

  25. They cannot expect me,' he said, 'to take the initiatory step; this would be putting the cart before the horse.

  26. I have endeavored to show that every civilization derives its peculiar character from the race which gave the initiatory impulse.

  27. In the inventive, initiatory quality it does not surpass, or even equal some of its predecessors, but in comprehensiveness it surpasses all.

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

  29. On the contrary, when a nation has completely exhausted the initiatory ethnical element, defeat is certain death; it has consumed the term of existence which Heaven had granted it--its destiny is fulfilled.

  30. It is a subject for congratulation that the great Empire of Brazil has taken the initiatory step toward the abolition of slavery.

  31. The conjecture is confirmed, first, by the very limited and definite area of Fiji in which these initiatory rites were practised, and, second, by the equally definite tradition of their origin.

  32. The principal initiatory rite consists of circumcision, which is performed on all youths before they are admitted to the rank of full-grown men.

  33. Indeed the initiatory ceremonies are performed by the tribes jointly, now in the territory of the Bukaua, now in the territory of the Yabim, or in the land of the Kai, a tribe of mountaineers, or again in the neighbouring Tami islands.

  34. These initiatory ceremonies are held at intervals of about ten or fifteen years, when there are a considerable number of young men to be initiated together.

  35. The initiatory rites are now celebrated only at intervals of many years.

  36. In these initiatory rites, as in the similar rites of the neighbouring tribes on the mainland of New Guinea, we may perhaps detect a simulation of death and of resurrection to a new and higher life.

  37. When the initiatory ceremonies are over, the flutes are carefully kept in the men's clubhouse of the village till the next time they are wanted for a similar occasion.

  38. Sidenote: The essence of the initiatory rites seems to be a simulation of death and resurrection; the novice is supposed to be killed and to come to life or be born again.

  39. The central feature of the initiatory rites is the circumcision of the novices.

  40. The bull-roarers which are used at the initiatory ceremonies are kept in the principal clubhouse of the village.

  41. Sidenote: The intention of the initiatory rites seems to be to introduce the young men to the ancestral spirits.

  42. All initiatory rites were performed by the chief of the district and the Carabali tongue was used exclusively.

  43. However, such is a repetition of the initiatory ordinance as previously administered.

  44. The former we shall see reason to regard as simply an initiatory form, applicable only to Christian converts, and limited therefore to adults; the latter as purely a commemoration: neither therefore having any sacramental or mystical efficacy.

  45. But these are only the initiatory absurdities of this "good faith implied.

  46. Mazzini became a Carbonaro, though the want of clear, guiding principles in Carbonarism made him misdoubt its efficacy, and its hierarchical mysteries and initiatory ordeals repelled him by their childishness.

  47. The religious symbolism of the Carbonari, their oaths and ceremonies, and the axes, blocks and other furniture of the initiatory chamber, were well calculated to impress the poorer and more ignorant and excitable of the brethren.

  48. In Romagna, where political assassination is in the blood of the people, a dagger was substituted for the symbolical woodman's axe in the initiatory rites.

  49. Follow me, then, and submit to the initiatory labours.

  50. Their sublimest works are in manuscript, and constitute the initiatory learning, not only of the Rosicrucians, but of the nobler brotherhoods I have referred to.

  51. Almost all the tribes impose initiatory rites upon the young, through which they must pass from one stage of life to another, until admitted to the privileges and rights of manhood.

  52. The object of the meeting in question was to perform the initiatory ceremonies upon a number of young men belonging to both of the tribes.

  53. We are to use the initiatory rite of the church for the time being.

  54. There must seem to them, as they increase in knowledge, a beautiful fitness in their having had those adorable names inscribed upon them, with God's own initiatory seal of his covenant.

  55. Now, if the initiatory rite of Christianity be used for the same purpose as that given to Abraham, why not confine it, as formerly, to males?


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    Other words:
    aboriginal; antecedent; anterior; autochthonous; baptismal; beginning; budding; chief; coeducational; creation; cultural; didactic; disciplinary; edifying; educational; elemental; elementary; embryonic; enlightening; fetal; first; foremost; formative; fundamental; headmost; hortatory; illuminating; inaugural; inceptive; inchoate; incipient; infant; infantile; informative; initial; initiative; initiatory; instructive; introductory; inventive; leading; lecturing; nascent; original; parturient; preceding; preceptive; precursory; prefatory; pregnant; preliminary; prenatal; preparatory; primal; primary; prime; primeval; primitive; prior; procreative; rudimentary; teaching