Initiate vs Formulate - What's the difference?
initiate | formulate | Related terms |
(obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
* Young
To begin; to start.
* I. Taylor
To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
* Dr. H. More
* John Locke
To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
* Bishop Warburton
* Spectator
To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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Initiate is a related term of formulate.
In lang=en terms the difference between initiate and formulate
is that initiate is to do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative while formulate is to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.As verbs the difference between initiate and formulate
is that initiate is to begin; to start while formulate is to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.As an adjective initiate
is (obsolete) unpractised; untried; new.As a noun initiate
is a new member of an organization.initiate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- the initiate fear that wants hard use
- To rise in science as in bliss, / Initiate in the secrets of the skies.
Verb
(initiat)- How are changes of this sort to be initiated ?
- Providence would only initiate mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry.
- To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough.
- The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honour after death.
- He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty.
- (Alexander Pope)
Antonyms
* (to begin) end, conclude, complete, finishExternal links
* * * ----formulate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
- Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors'' that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like ''comed'', ''goed'', ''seed'', ''buyed'', ''bringed , etc. frequently used by young children. [...]