uninitiated

uninitiated

uninitiated (not comparable)

1. Describing someone who, or something which, has not been initiated.
2. Describing someone who doesnt know the special knowledge of a particular group.

   His jargon-filled talk was gibberish to the uninitiated but clear and concise to practitioners.

   • 1863, Sir William Smith editor, A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising its Antiquities, Biography, Geography and Natural History^[1], Volume III. Red Sea-Zuzims, Little, Brown, and Co, Versions, Ancient (Targum), page 1653-1654:

     Even in the midst of the full swing of fancy, swayed to and fro by the many currants of thought that arise out of a single word, snatches of the verse from which the flight was taken will suddenly appear on the surface like a refrain or a keynote, showing that in reality there is a connexion, though hidden to the uninitiated.

   • 1914, William Halse Rivers Rivers, The History of Melanesian Society^[2], volume 2, Part 1, Adegi Graphics, ISBN 9781402197727, published 2001, Chapter XXXIII. Religion and Magic, page 411:

     To the uninitiated, the belief not merely in the influence of the dead, but in their actual presence during secret rites is, or has until lately been, very real, and in so far as the uninitiated are brought into relation with the societies will possess a religious character.

   • 1961,, “Tape recorders: A quick guide for the uninitiated”, Changing Times: The Kiplinger Magazine, volume 16, number 1, Kiplinger Washington Editors, ISSN 1528-9729, page 13:?

     A quick guide for the uninitiated

   • 2008, David E. Johnson, Anthropologys Wake: Attending to the End of Culture^[3], Fordham University Press, ISBN 9780823228782, Ex-Cited Dialogue, page 107:

     Although the priests are the initiated, they remain ignorant and incapable of instructing the uninitiated in the proper method of painting the temples.

Altri significati:

Describing someone who, or something which, has not been initiated.

Describing someone who doesn't know the special knowledge of a particular group.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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