ppl. a. (UN-1 8.) Also absol.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 637. The Prophane and Uninitiated in the Mysteries.
1800. Whiter, Etymologican Magnum, 174. The uninitiated reader will perhaps be astonished to find that these mystic words are familiar to his ear in the humble terms of CHEST and SACK; and I shall leave for the present the coeval antiquity of the KISS—the CHEST and the SACK as a profound enigma, for the benefit of some adventurous Œdipus in the mysteries of Etymology.
1816. Bentham, Chrestom., 55. Those … formularies, so appalling to every as yet uninitiated, and more particularly to the uninitiated juvenile eye.
1842. Dickens, Amer. Notes, i. What seemed to the uninitiated a serious journey.
1885. Athenæum, 19 Dec., 800/2. One uninitiated in the mysteries of Scottish genealogies.
