Initiate vs Organise - What's the difference?
initiate | organise | 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.
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Initiate is a related term of organise.
As verbs the difference between initiate and organise
is that initiate is to begin; to start while organise is .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
* * * ----organise
English
Verb
(organis)The machine of a new soul, passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.}}