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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | church rite; initiation |
| Synonyms: | ablution, baptismal, christening, debut, dedication, dunking, immersion, introduction, launching, lustration, purgation, purge, purification, rite of passage, ritual, sanctification, sprinkling |
| Main Entry: | initiation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start, introduction |
| Synonyms: | admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inaugural, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, instatement, investiture, preliminaries |
| Antonyms: | close, conclusion, end, ending, finish, termination |
| Main Entry: | introduction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something new; something that begins |
| Synonyms: | addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text, beginning, commencement, debut, essentials, establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, hornbook, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, interpolation, intro, launch, lead, lead-in, opening, opening remarks, overture, pioneering, preamble, preface, preliminaries, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prolegomenon, prologue, survey |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | purification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freeing, cleansing |
| Synonyms: | ablution, absolution, atonement, baptism, bathing, catharsis, depuration, disinfection, distillation, expiation, expurgation, forgiveness, grace, lavation, laving, lustration, purgation, purge, purifying, rarefaction, rebirth, redemption, refinement, regeneration, salvation, sanctification, washing |
| Antonyms: | adulteration, corruption, dirtying, pollution |
| Main Entry: | sacrament |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rite |
| Synonyms: | baptism, celebration, ceremony, communion, confession, confirmation, custom, holy orders, liturgy, marriage, matrimony, oath, observance, practice, ritual, service, vow |
| Main Entry: | rite of passage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ritual performed for change of status |
| Synonyms: | baptism, circumcision, initiation, initiation rite, initiatory rite, rite de passage |
| Main Entry: | inaugural |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | initiation |
| Synonyms: | admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, instatement, investiture, preliminaries |
| Notes: | the presidential induction ceremony is the inauguration; the speech made is the inaugural address or inaugural |
| Main Entry: | instatement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | initiation |
| Synonyms: | admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inaugural, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, investiture, preliminaries |
| Main Entry: | investiture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | initiation |
| Synonyms: | admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inaugural, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, instatement, preliminaries |
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