initiare

initiare [CL], ~ari [LL] 1 to initiate (person) (in quots. pass.): a (by admission to religious group or sim.); b (by elementary instruction). a ne prohiberentur [sc. Judaei] ‥ legalibus caeremoniis ~ari Bede Retract. 1029; sacramenta regni caelestis, quibus ~atus erat Id. HE III 1 p. 127; reginam ‥ religiosam baptismique sacramentis ~atam Alcuin Vedast. 1; Folc. V. Bot. 2 (v. devincire 1b); ambo ‥ sacris Christianis ~ati W. Malm. GR I 49 p. 50.  b discipulus iste quid discit? utique timere Dominum ‥[Deut. xvii 19] recte quidem, eo quod ‥ ‘initium sapientie timor Domini’ [Psalm. cx 10]. qui ergo timoris non ~atur gradu ‥ J. Sal. Pol. 526D. 2 to admit (person) to office (in quots. pass.): a (w. ref. to consecration of priest, also absol. in glosses); b (w. ref. to admission to kingship or sim.). a benedictioni qua ~antur sacerdotum vel ministrorum manus Gildas EB 106; ~atus, sanctificatus Gl. Leid. 4. 86; ~atum, ordinatum Ib. 41. 18; 10‥ ~atum, gesteþed, gehalgodne WW; Hermannus, necdum plane ~atus, expulsus est W. Malm. GP II 83 p. 183.  b ritu tyrannico et tumultuante ~atum milite Maximum Gildas EB 13; ~atum, gestoepid GlC I 466; K. ‥ potestate ‥ ~atus adolescens W. Malm. GR I 19 p. 22; Arturus ‥ insignibus ‥ regiis ~atus G. Mon. IX 1. 3 (trans., act. or dep.) to begin, commence, enter upon, (pass.) to be begun, to begin (intr.): a (var. activities, conditions, or sim.); b (utterance, writing, or sim.); c (religious observance, festival); d (period of time); e (truce, agreement, or sim.); f (leg. proceedings); g (absol., and in glosses). a Januarius ‥ qui aliter dicitur ‥ Quirinus, eo quod tunc bella ~antur [MS: ~entur] Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 285; 1191 electionem eo die vix ~are potuimus Ep. Cant. 386; [puella] annulum ‥ in signum ‥ amoris ~ati transmisit J. Furness Walth. 16; inter ~ate sanctitatis primicias P. Blois Ep. 35. 113B; cum pungitur locus morpheatus, si sanguis exeat curabilis est, quamvis corrupti sit ~ata ex parte Gilb. f. 170v. 1; in eleccione ~atur spirituale conjugium Paul. Angl. ASP 1529 l. 31.  b Jeremiam ‥ audite, hoc modo leniter versa ~antem: ‘et factum est ‥’ [Jer. ii 1] Gildas EB 47; ceptum ‥ ingrediamur primum octave littere tractatum ~antes Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 265; Grammatica ‥ tractatum talibus ‥ verbis fuit ~ata Ib. 275; conveniant ‥ omnes ‥ et ~ent commendacionem anime: ‘subvenite ‥’ Comp. Swith. 193.  c Moyses ‥ sollemnitatem primitiarum praecepit ~ari [cf. Exod. xxiii 19] Bede Acts 950; Ord. Vit. IV 2 p. 168 (v. 1 hibernus); episcopus ‥ ~ata Pasche sollennia celebravit Ib. XI 11 p. 204.  d 798 annum cum nato Christo ‥ ~are secundum Latinos Alcuin Ep. 145 p. 231; dictio bissena dat in ordine grammata bissex, / illis ut menses injiciare [i. e. initiare] queas: / Altitonans Dominus, Divina Gerens, etc. Garl. Tri. Eccl. 88; ? 1277 ~abitur ‥ primus mensis [sc. treugae] statim postquam treuga publicata fuerit TreatyR I 164 p. 67.  e 1197 quatinus pacis et †concorde [l. concordie] bonum, quod inter nos et prenominatam ecclesiam ‥ ~atum est, ‥ subsistat Ch. Westm. 481; s1210 pax que ~ata erat inter reges ‥ confirmata est Flor. Hist. II 139; s1243 firmate sunt treuge, que subarrate et ~ate fuerant die sancti Gregorii Ib. II 261 (cf. M. Par. Maj. IV 242: que capte fuerant et prelocute).  f c1260 dedimus prefato W. v marcas ‥ ad perquirendum breve et dictum placitum ~andum Meaux II 98.  g cepere [i. e. coepere], incipere, inchoare, ~ari Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 146; comencer, incipere, inolere, ordiri, ~are Gl. AN Ox. 153v; illud instans est in quantum terminans respectu preteriti, et in quantum ~ans respectu futuri Bacon VIII 41. 4 to broach (cask; also fig.). inicio in Gallico est estrener, ‥ unde dicitur ‘dolium est ~atum’, entamé in Gallico Neckam Corrog. p. 673 (cf. id. Corrog. Vers., Teaching Latin I 248: Gallicus entamé vas predicat iniciatum); Maria dolium ventris iniciat, / mortales celicos et manes debriat Walt. Wimb. Carm. 132. 5 a (w. inf.) to begin (to do etc.). b (p. ppl. n. as sb.) thing begun, undertaking, enterprise. a heremitare ~avit [gl.: i. e. inchoavit] Felix Guthl. 29; dominum suum, sub cujus disciplinis Deo inuere ~avit Ib. 35.  b cicada viatoris promovet gressum et ~atorum amenat exitum J. Sal. Pol. 412D. 6 a to found, establish (institution, custom, religion). b to cause, bring about. a 799 hanc [vitam monachorum] primitiva per apostolos in Judaea ~avit aecclesia Alcuin Ep. 168 p. 276; Wulferus ‥ Christianitatem ‥ per fratrem ~atam favore suo ‥ juvit W. Malm. GR I 76; c1155 populo ecclesie S. Trinitatis ‥ predecessorum meorum pietatis studio ‥ ~ate Regesta Scot. 118 p. 182; s1257 scolam Parisiensem ‥ ~avit et ~atam sustentaverat M. Par. Maj. V 651.  b cum [materia] nullo modo habet unde ~et motum nisi per appetitum Siccav. PN 54; forma ~ans transmutacionem Ib. 158. 7 (w. abstr. as obj., and dat. of person) to impart or introduce (to). quam [sc. poenitentiam] prae omnibus suae nobis ~atus [dep.] instrumentum doctrinae Dominus Jhesus medicamenta male habentibus praedicavit dicens ‘penitentiam agite’ [Matth. iv 17] Theod. Pen. pref. p. 176; cujus corporis et sanguinis secreta nobis ~avit sacramenta, qui ‥ tollit ‥ omnium peccata V. Greg. 110. 8 (intr.) to begin, commence (in quot., pr. ppl. in sense ‘initial, first’). si salutifere fidei nostre rudimentum ~ans circumspecte contemplemur ‥ Mir. Wulfst. I prol. p. 115.