What is "uninitiate"

Usage examples of "uninitiate".

No Threer was included in this enclosure, but a Five, three Nines, and a dozen uninitiates were ranged at the proper gradations of distance.

Between the twelve uninitiates and the mass stretched, as in the other yard, a line of pickets.

Then, from the uninitiates, he passed successively to the Nines, the Sevens, to his comrades of the Five, and finally, to the Threes.

The man eligible for promotion from the novices or uninitiates was almost invariably in attendance, but if his presence could not be secured--say, because he was in gaol, in Longridge Barracks, or at the Cascades--he was admitted by proxy, the proxy, one of the initiates, being compelled to administer the rite to the newly-elected at the earliest opportunity.

The uninitiated were deemed Profane, unworthy of public employment or private confidence, sometimes proscribed as Atheists, and certain of ever-lasting punishment beyond the grave.

And he thus learned the meaning of those symbols, which, to the uninitiated, were but a maze of unintelligible figures.

I shall not, therefore, attempt to speak of what is so admirable in them, lest by discovering them to the uninitiated, I should offend against the injunction not to give what is holy to the impure, nor cast pearls before such as cannot estimate their worth.

Germaine tell you that divulging the true state of a vampire to the uninitiated is viewed as a crime against the entire brotherhood?

They had been returned, pale with fatigue and smug with secrets, for the celebration that evening, and neither by threats nor by urging could they be compelled to tell the uninitiated girls what had occurred.

Dark-Hunter Code forbade him to reveal his powers to an uninitiated human.

The complicated diagrams and mystic texts that pass for Kabbalah today were often deliberately distorted in order to confuse the uninitiated eye.

He quite well knew that if he succeeded in obtaining aid he, being really uninitiated, would suffer for it.

It is said that he touched a waratah stem while it was still being influenced by the hand of the spirit, and he, being uninitiated, could not bear the contact and he paid for it with his life.

To impress women and children with an idea of the superhuman strength of the dragon deep grooves are cut in the trunks of trees and afterwards exhibited to the uninitiated as the marks made by the monster in tugging at the ropes which bound him to the trees.

Milt flinch, though to the uninitiated it would look like no more than the flicker of an eyelash.