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.