In·i·ti·ate a.
 1. Unpracticed; untried; new. [Obs.] “The initiate fear that wants hard use.”
 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.