Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter I - Page 45
Inhering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inhere.
Inhere (v. i.) 生來即存在（於）；本質上即屬（於） To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.
They do but inhere in the subject that supports them. -- Digby. Inherence
Inhere (v.) Be inherent in something.
Inherence (n.) 固有性；天生 Alt. of Inherency.
Inherency (n.) The state of inhering; permanent existence in something; innateness; inseparable and essential connection. -- Jer. Taylor.
Inherence (n.) The state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic; "the inherence of polysemy in human language" [syn: {inherence}, {inherency}].
Inherent (a.) 內在的；固有的，與生俱來的 [（+in）] Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. "A most inherent baseness." -- Shak.
The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization. -- Southey.
Syn: Innate; inborn; native; natural; inbred; inwrought; inseparable; essential; indispensable.
Inherent (a.) Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth" [syn: {built-in}, {constitutional}, {inbuilt}, {inherent}, {integral}].
Inherent (a.) In the nature of something though not readily apparent; "shortcomings inherent in our approach"; "an underlying meaning" [syn: {implicit in(p)}, {inherent}, {underlying}].
Inherently (adv.) 天性地；固有地 By inherence; inseparably.
Matter hath inherently and essentially such an internal energy. -- Bentley.
Inherently (adv.) In an inherent manner; "the subject matter is sexual activity of any overt kind, which is depicted as inherently desirable and exciting".
Inherited (imp. & p. p.) of Inherit.
Inheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inherit.
Inherit (v. t.) (Law) [(+from)] 繼承（傳統，遺產等）；經遺傳而獲得（性格，特徵等） To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.
Inherit (v. t.) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc. ; to inherit hemophilia.
Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath . . . manured . . . with good store of fertile sherris. -- Shak.
Inherit (v. t.) To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.
But the meek shall inherit the earth. -- Ps. xxxvii. 11.
To bury so much gold under a tree, And never after to inherit it. -- Shak.
Inherit (v. t.) To put in possession of. [R.] -- Shak.
Inherit (v. i.) [(+from)] 成為財產（或權利等）的繼承人；獲得性格（或特徵等）的遺傳 To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.
Thou shalt not inherit our father's house. -- Judg. xi. 2.
Inherit (v.) Obtain from someone after their death; "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents".
Inherit (v.) Receive from a predecessor; "The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair".
Inherit (v.) Receive by genetic transmission; "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother".
Inheritability (n.) The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. -- Jefferson.
Inheritable (a.) 可繼承的；遺傳的 Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.
Inheritable (a.) Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.
Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.
By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. -- Blackstone.
The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. -- Blackstone.
{Inheritable blood}, Blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance.
Inheritable (a.) Capable of being inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title" [syn: {inheritable}, {heritable}] [ant: {nonheritable}, {noninheritable}].
Inheritably (adv.) By inheritance. -- Sherwood.
Inheritance (n.) <Programming, object-oriented> In {object-oriented programming}, the ability to derive new classes from existing classes. A derived class (or "subclass") inherits the instance variables and methods of the "base class" (or "superclass"), and may add new instance variables and methods. New methods may be defined with the same names as those in the base class, in which case they override the original one.
For example, bytes might belong to the class of integers for which an add method might be defined. The byte class would inherit the add method from the integer class.
See also Liskov substitution principle, {multiple inheritance}. (2000-10-10)
Inheritance (n.) 繼承 [U]；繼承權 [U]；繼承物；遺產；遺贈 [C] [S1] The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
Inheritance (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.
When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter. -- Shak.
Inheritance (n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. -- 1 Pet. i. 4.
Inheritance (n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition. "The inheritance of their loves." -- Shak.
To you th' inheritance belongs by right：Of brother's praise; to you eke 'longs his love. -- Spenser.
Inheritance (n.) (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
Inheritance (n.) (Law) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law. -- Blackstone.
Note: The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined to the title to land and tenements by a descent. -- Mozley & W.
Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely for themselves; their children have a title to part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when death has put an end to their parents' use of it; and this we call inheritance. -- Locke.
Inheritance (n.) Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property [syn: {inheritance}, {heritage}].
Inheritance (n.) That which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner [syn: {inheritance}, {heritage}].
Inheritance (n.) (Genetics) Attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents [syn: {inheritance}, {hereditary pattern}].
Inheritance (n.) Any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge" [syn: {inheritance}, {heritage}].
Inheritance (n.), Estates. A perpetuity in lands to a man and his heirs; or it is the right to succeed to the estate of a person who died intestate. Dig. 50, 16, 24. The term is applied to lands.
Inheritance (n.) The property which is inherited is called an inheritance.
Inheritance (n.) The term inheritance includes not only lands and tenements which have been acquired by descent, but also every fee simple or fee tail, which a person has acquired by purchase, may be said to be an inheritance, because the purchaser's heirs may inherit it. Litt. s. 9.
Inheritance (n.) Estates of inheritance are divided into inheritance absolute, or fee simple; and inheritance limited, one species of which is called fee tail. They are also divided into corporeal, as houses and lands and incorporeal, commonly called incorporeal hereditaments. (q. v.) 1 Cruise, Dig. 68; Sw. 163; Poth. des Retraits, n. 2 8.
Inheritance (n.) Among the civilians, by inheritance is understood the succession to all the rights of the deceased. It is of two kinds, 1 . That which arises by testament, when the testator gives his succession to a particular person; and, 2. That which arises by operation of law, which is called succession ab intestat. Hein. Lec. El. Sec. 484, 485.
Inheritor (n.) 繼承人 One who inherits; an heir.
Born inheritors of the dignity. -- Milton.
Inheritor (n.) A person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another [syn: heir, inheritor, heritor].
Inheritress (n.) 女繼承人 A heiress. -- Milman.
Inheritress (n.) A female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix].
Inheritrix (n.) Same as Inheritress. -- Shak.
Inheritrix (n.) A female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix].
Inherse (v. t.) [Obs.] See Inhearse.
Inhesion (n.) The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence. -- A. Baxter.
Constant inhesion and habitual abode. -- South.
Inhiation (n.) A gaping after; eager desire; craving. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Inhibited (imp. & p. p.) of Inhibit.
Inhibiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inhibit.
Inhibit (v. t.) 禁止；約束；抑制 To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them. -- Bentley.
Inhibit (v. t.) To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
All men were inhibited, by proclamation, at the dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament. -- Clarendon.
Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any one. -- Ayliffe.
Inhibit (v. t.) (Chem., Biochem.) To cause the rate of (a chemical or biochemical reaction) to proceed slower, or to halt; as, vitamin C inhibits oxidation; penicillins inhibit bacterial cell wall synthesis.
Inhibit (v. t.) To restrain (a behavior) by a mechanism involving conscious or unconscious motivations.
Inhibit (v.) To put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" [syn: suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb].
Inhibit (v.) Limit the range or extent of; "Contact between the young was inhibited by strict social customs".
Inhibit (v.) Limit, block, or decrease the action or function of; "inhibit the action of the enzyme"; "inhibit the rate of a chemical reaction".
Inhibit (v.) Control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior [syn: inhibit, bottle up, suppress].
Inhibition (n.) 禁止；抑制 The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
Inhibition (n.) (Physiol.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
Inhibition (n.) (Law) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal. -- Cowell.
Inhibition (n.) (Chem., Biochem.) The reduction in rate or stopping of a chemical or biochemical reaction, due to interaction with a chemical agent.
Inhibition (n.) (Psychology) The conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires [syn: inhibition, suppression].
Inhibition (n.) The quality of being inhibited.
Inhibition (n.) (Physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part; "the inhibition of the heart by the vagus nerve".
Inhibition (n.) The action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn: prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance].
Inhibition, () Scotch law,. A personal prohibition which passes by letters under the signet, prohibiting the party inhibited to contract any debt, or do . any deed, by which any part of the lands may be aliened or carried off, in prejudice of the creditor inhibiting. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. B. 2, t. 11, s. 2. See Diligences.
Inhibition, () In the civil law, the prohibition which the law makes, or a judge ordains to an individual, is called inhibition.
Inhibition, () Eng. law. The name of a writ which forbids a judge from further proceeding in a cause depending before him; it is in the nature of a prohibition. T. de la Ley; F. N. B. 39.
Inhibitor (n.) [NL.] That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.
Inhibitor (n.) A substance that retards or stops an activity [ant: activator].
Inhibitory (a.) Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.
I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. -- Lamb.
Inhibitory nerves (Physiol.), Those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppress a motor or secretory act already in progress.
Inhibitory (a.) Restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: inhibitory, repressive, repressing].
Inhibitory-motor (a.) (Physiol.) A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. -- McKendrick.
Inhive (v. t.) To place in a hive; to hive.
Inheld (imp. & p. p.) of Inhold.
Inholding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inhold.
Inhold (v. t.) To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Inholder (n.) An inhabitant. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Compare: Inhabitant
Inhabitant (n.) [C]（某地區的）居民，居住者；（某地區、部位等）棲居的動物 One who dwells or resides permanently in a place, as distinguished from a transient lodger or visitor; as, an inhabitant of a house, a town, a city, county, or state. "Frail inhabitants of earth." -- Cowper.
In this place, they report that they saw inhabitants which were very fair and fat people. -- Abp. Abbot.
Inhabitant (n.) (Law) One who has a legal settlement in a town, city, or parish; a permanent resident.
Inhabitant (n.) A person who inhabits a particular place [syn: inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller].
Inhoop (v. t.) To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop. [R.] -- Shak.
Inhospitable (a.) 不好客的，招待不殷勤的；冷淡的 [（+to）]；無遮掩的；荒涼的；不適居留的 Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door? -- Cowper.
Inhospitable (a.) Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. "Inhospitable wastes." -- Blair. -- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv.
Inhospitable (a.) Unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" [ant: hospitable].
Inhospitable (a.) Not hospitable; "they are extremely inhospitable these days"; "her greeting was cold and inhospitable" [ant: hospitable].
Inhospitality (n.) 不好客，不殷勤招待；冷淡 [U] The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. -- Bp. Hall.
Inhospitality (n.) Unkind and inconsiderate welcome; "he was taken aback by such inhospitality" [ant: cordial reception, hospitality].
Inhuman (a.) 無人性的；野蠻的；殘酷的；硬心腸的；非人（類）的；超人的 Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
Inhuman (a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.
Syn: Cruel; unfeeling; pitiless; merciless; savage; barbarous; brutal; ferocious; ruthless; fiendish.
Inhuman (a.) Without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate].
Inhuman (a.) Belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises".
Inhumanities (n. pl. ) of Inhumanity.
Inhumanity (n.) 無人情味；殘忍 The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.
Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. -- Burns.
Inhumanity (n.) The quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others [syn: inhumaneness, inhumanity] [ant: humaneness].
Inhumanity (n.) An act of atrocious cruelty [syn: atrocity, inhumanity].
Inhumanly (adv.) 無人情味地；殘忍地 In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.
Inhumate (v. t.) 埋葬 To inhume; to bury; to inter. -- Hedge.
Inhumation (n.) 埋葬，土葬 The act of inhuming or burying; interment.
Inhumation (n.) (Old Chem.) The act of burying vessels in warm earth in order to expose their contents to a steady moderate heat; the state of being thus exposed.
Inhumation (n.) (Med.) Arenation.
Inhumation (n.) The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture].
Inhumed (imp. & p. p.) of Inhume.
Inhuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inhume.
Inhume (v. t.) 葬，土葬 To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.
Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume the natives in their native plain. -- Pope.
Inhume (v. t.) To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal purposes.
Inhume (v.) Place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest].
Inia (n.) (Zool.) A South American freshwater dolphin ({Inia Boliviensis). It is ten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.
Inial (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the inion.
Inimaginable (a.) Unimaginable; inconceivable. [R.] -- Bp. Pearson.
Inimical (a.) Having the disposition or temper of an enemy; unfriendly; unfavorable; -- chiefly applied to private, as hostile is to public, enmity.
Inimical (a.) Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant.
We are at war with a system, which, by its essence, is inimical to all other governments. -- Burke.
Inimical (a.) Not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic" [syn: unfriendly, inimical].
Inimicality (n.) The state or quality of being inimical or hostile; hostility; unfriendliness. [R.]
Inimically (adv.) In an inimical manner.
Inimicitious (a.) Inimical; unfriendly. [R.] -- Sterne.
Inimicous (a.) Inimical; hurtful. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Inimitability (n.) The quality or state of being inimitable; inimitableness. -- Norris.
Inimitable (a.) Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique; as, an inimitable style; inimitable eloquence. "Inimitable force." -- Dryden.
Performing such inimitable feats. -- Cowper. -- In*im"i*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*im"i*ta*bly, adv.
Inimitable (a.) Defying imitation; matchless; "an inimitable style".
Inion (n.) (Anat.) The external occipital protuberance of the skull.
Inion (n.) The craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance).
Iniquitous (a.) Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding.
Demagogues . . . bribed to this iniquitous service. -- Burke.
Syn: Wicked; wrong; unjust; unrighteous; nefarious; criminal.
Usage: Iniquitous, Wicked, Nefarious. Wicked is the generic term. Iniquitous is stronger, denoting a violation of the rights of others, usually by fraud or circumvention. Nefarious is still stronger, implying a breach of the most sacred obligations, and points more directly to the intrinsic badness of the deed.
Iniquitous (a.) Characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts" [syn: iniquitous, sinful, ungodly].
Iniquitously (adv.) In an iniquitous manner; unjustly; wickedly.
Iniquitously (adv.) In an iniquitous manner; "they really believed that the treaty of Versailles was iniquitously injust".
Iniquities (n. pl. ) of Iniquity.
Iniquity (n.) 極度的不公正；邪惡，罪惡 [U]；不公正行為；惡劣行為；罪惡行徑 [C] Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.
Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth and foul iniquity. -- Spenser.
Iniquity (n.) An iniquitous act or
thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime. -- Milton.
Your iniquities have separated between you and your God. -- Is. lix. 2.
Iniquity (n.) A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.
Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit Of miming gets the opinion of a wit. -- B. Jonson.
Iniquity (n.) Absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark].
Iniquity (n.) Morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity].
Iniquity (n.) An unjust act [syn: injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness]
Iniquity. () Vice; contrary to equity; injustice.
Iniquity. () Where, in a doubtful matter, the judge is required to pronounce, it is his duty to decide in such a manner as is the least against equity.
Iniquous (a.) Iniquitous. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Inirritable (a.) Not irritable; esp. (Physiol.), incapable of being stimulated to action, as a muscle. -- In*ir`ri*ta*bil"i*ty, n.
Inirritative (a.) Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. -- E. Darwin.
Inisle (v. t.) To form into an island; to surround. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Initial (a.) 開始的，最初的；在字開頭的 Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
Initial (a.) Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.
Initial (n.) （字的）起首字母；（姓名或組織名稱等的）首字母 [P1] The first letter of a word or a name.
Initialed (imp. & p. p.) of Initial.
Initialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Initial.
Initial (v. t.) 簽（或印）姓名的首字母於； 草簽 To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials. [R.]
Initial (a.) Occurring at the beginning; "took the initial step toward reconciliation".
Initial (n.) The first letter of a word (especially a person's name); "he refused to put the initials FRS after his name".
Initial (v.) Mark with one's initials.
Initial. () Placed at the beginning. The initials of a man's name are the first letters of his Dame; as, G. W. for George Washington. When in a will the legatee is described by the initials of his name only, parol evidence may be given to prove his identity. 3 Ves. 148. And a signature made simply with initials is binding. 1 Denio, R. 471. But see Ersk. Inst. B. 3, t. 2, n. 8.
Initially (adv.) 最初；開頭 In an initial or incipient manner or degree; at the beginning. -- Barrow.
Initially (adv.) At the beginning; "at first he didn't notice anything strange" [syn: initially, ab initio].
Initiated (imp. & p. p.) of Initiate.
Initiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Initiate.
Initiate (v. t.) 開始；創始；開始實施 To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.
How are changes of this sort to be initiated? -- I. Taylor.
Initiate (v. t.) To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
Providence would only initiate mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry. -- Dr. H. More.
To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough. -- Locke.
Initiate (v. t.) To introduce into a society or organization; to confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honor after death. -- Bp. Warburton.
He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty. -- Spectator.
Initiate (v. i.) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative. [R.] -- Pope.
Initiate (a.) 接受初步知識的；新加入的 Unpracticed; untried; new. [Obs.] "The initiate fear that wants hard use." -- Shak.
Initiate (a.) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
To rise in science as in bliss, Initiate in the secrets of the skies. -- Young.
Initiate tenant by courtesy (Law), Said of a husband who becomes such in his wife's estate of inheritance by the birth of a child, but whose estate is not consummated till the death of the wife. -- Mozley & W.
Initiate (n.) [C] 接受初步知識者；新加入者 One who is, or is to be, initiated.
Initiate (n.) Someone new to a field or activity [syn: novice, beginner, tyro, tiro, initiate].
Initiate (n.) Someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field [syn: initiate, learned person, pundit, savant].
Initiate (n.) People who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate" [syn: initiate, enlightened] [ant: uninitiate].
Initiate (v.) Bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation" [syn: originate, initiate, start].
Initiate (v.) Take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants" [syn: initiate, pioneer].
Initiate (v.) Accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite; "African men are initiated when they reach puberty" [syn: initiate, induct].
Initiate (v.) Bring up a topic for discussion [syn: broach, initiate].
Initiate (v.) Set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for; "Hitler's attack on Poland led up to World War II" [syn: lead up, initiate].
Initiate. () A right which is incomplete. By the birth of a child, the husband becomes tenant by the curtesy initiate, but his estate is not consummate until the death of the wife. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1725.