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Word Meanings - INITIATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

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  • PRELUDE
    An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
  • PRELUDER
    One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
  • LEADING EDGE
    same as Advancing edge, above.
  • TAKING
    1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
  • MISMANAGER
    One who manages ill.
  • PALLIATIVE
    Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
  • CONTROLLABLENESS
    Capability of being controlled.
  • PRECLUSIVE
    Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering. -- Pre*clu"sive*ly, adv.
  • PROEMIAL
    Introductory; prefatory; preliminary. Hammond.
  • CONTROLLABILITY
    Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
  • TAKE
    Taken. Chaucer.
  • ANTECEDENT
    1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
  • INDUCTION
    The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal; also, the result or inference so reached. Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • TAKE-OFF
    An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
  • PREFATORY
    Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks. That prefatory addition to the Creed. Dryden.
  • SOOTHNESS
    Truth; reality. Chaucer.
  • LEADED
    Separated by leads, as the lines of a page. (more info) 1. Fitted with lead; set in lead; as, leaded windows.
  • INDUCTIONAL
    Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.
  • MISCONDUCT
    Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
  • LENITIVENESS
    The quality of being lenitive.
  • UNMISTAKABLE
    Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
  • POT LEAD
    Graphite, or black lead, often used on the bottoms of racing vessels to diminish friction.
  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • COUNTERPLEAD
    To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
  • MISTAKING
    An error; a mistake. Shak.
  • PLEADINGS
    The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
  • PROTUBERATE
    To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
  • NONPRESENTATION
    Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
  • RINGLEADER
    1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
  • MISTAKINGLY
    Erroneously.
  • PLEADINGLY
    In a pleading manner.
  • ENTERPLEAD
    See INTERPLEAD

 

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