What does initiate mean?

Question

What does initiate mean?

Answer 1

Use a dictionary, for crying out loud.

Answer 2

begin.

Answer 3

to start something or to become accepted into a group ie an initiation ceremony

Answer 4

Initiate:   From the Latin Initiatus. The designation of anyone who was received into and had revealed to him the mysteries and secrets of either Masonry or Occultism. In times of antiquity, those who had been initiated into the arcane knowledge taught by the Hierophants of the Mysteries; and in our modern days those who have been initiated by the adepts of mystic lore into the mysterious knowledge, which, notwithstanding the lapse of ages, has yet a few real votaries on earth.

Answer 5

simple answer from me lol

to start

Answer 6

start or begin

Answer 7

Start or commence

Answer 8

It means "to start" as in to commence some activity.  So "to initiate a conversation" means "to start a conversation".

Answer 9

start