Citations:initiational

pertaining to initiation (into something e.g. spiritual)

 * 2003, M. Kõiv, Ancient Tradition and Early Greek History: The Origins of States in Early-arhaic Sparta, Argos and Corinth (ISBN 9789985208076)
 * On the role of krypteia in Spartan initiational rites see Jeanmaire 1913; 1939, 540-569.
 * 2005, Neil Leach, Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory, Routledge (ISBN 9781134796281)
 * Here we recognize in the tourist visit that initiational function we have just invoked apropos of the trip to the Tower; the cohort of visitors which is enclosed by a monument and processionally follows its internal meanders before coming back ...
 * 2007, Samar Attar, The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought, Lexington Books (ISBN 9780739162330), page 113:
 * [...] the hero reaches his goal not in the realm of reason but in the vision of God and the mystical union with the highest being (without, however, forswearing the use of his rational faculty), one could perhaps rather call it an initiational tale.
 * 2012, John Powers, David Templeman, Historical Dictionary of Tibet, Scarecrow Press (ISBN 9780810879843), page 627:
 * [...] has important sociological dimensions in Tibet, as one&#39;s primary religious practice is centered on the particular sadhanas of one&#39;s initiational lineage, and one&#39;s group identification is largely determined by the sadhanas one performs.

possibly 'initial', or pertaining to the chemistry sense of 'initiation'

 * 1907, The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, page 20:
 * In the V-problem the initiational condition is : — displacement zero and initiational velocity virtually given throughout the fluid as the determinate result of an arbitrarily distributed impulsive pressure on the surface.

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 * 1997, Chihuei Wang, The Androgen and Antiandrogen Effects on the Tanscriptional Activity of Androgen Receptor
 * SHRs have been shown to interact with the general transcriptional initiational complex in vitro (22,23), but the molecular mechanism of these interaction in vivo remains unclear.
 * 2008, Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Verb Meaning and the Lexicon: A First Phase Syntax, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9781139469548), page 82:
 * In other words, the intransitives I have considered have been those that arise because of composite roles, not because of the lack of initiational predicational structure. Although there have been various different definitions of &#39;unaccusativity&#39; in the literature, I will call the verb class which lacks an initiational functional head in the eventive decomposition the &#39;unaccusativity&#39; type.