Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Initiate \In*i"ti*ate\, a. [L. initiatus, p. p.]
   1. Unpracticed; untried; new. [Obs.] ``The initiate fear that
      wants hard use.'' --Shak.

   2. 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.