What is "initiates"

Usage examples of "initiates".

But his exact whereabouts remained a mystery to all but a few select initiates a mystery that the various agents and spies of the Committee of National Welfare appeared increasingly eager to solve.

The vestments you helped design for the new tertiary lay initiates were a great success.

Thus as Merleau-Ponty notes, the organism both initiates and is shaped by the environment.

My offer for the capitulation of Vawnpolis is full pardon and amnesty to all within its walls, saving only priests, monks and those laymen who are Initiates of the Inner Mysteries.