Lambaste vs Initiate - What's the difference?
lambaste | initiate |
To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
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(dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.
(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.
As verbs the difference between lambaste and initiate
is that lambaste is to scold, reprimand or criticize harshly while initiate is to begin; to start.As an adjective initiate is
(obsolete) unpractised; untried; new.As a noun initiate is
a new member of an organization.lambaste
English
Alternative forms
* lambast (UK)Verb
(lambast)- The sergeant lambasted the new recruits daily.
- Her first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.
- Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. "I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either," Kurtz wrote.
Synonyms
* (to give a thrashing to) beat, hit, thrash * (to scold or verbally reprimand) berate, scold, tell offAnagrams
* *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)
