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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

in·i·tial / iˈnishəl/ • adj. existing or occurring at the beginning: our initial impression was favorable. ∎ (of a letter) at the beginning of a word. • n. (usu. initials) the first letter of a name or word, typically a person's name or a word forming part of a phrase: they carved their initials into the tree trunk. • v. (-tialed , -tial·ing ; Brit. -tialled, -tial·ling) [tr.] mark or sign (a document) with one's initials, esp. in order to authorize or validate it. ∎ agree to or ratify (a treaty or contract) by signing it.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

initial pert. to a or the beginning. XVI. — L. initiālis, f. initium beginning, f. init-, pp. stem of inīre enter upon, begin, f. IN-1 + īre go, rel. to Skr. éti, Gr. eīmi; see -AL1.
So initiate XVII. initiation XV. — L. initiative sb. XVIII. — F. initiatory XVII.

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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

initial A meristem cell that is actively dividing. Each division yields 1 differentiated cell which joins the main body of specialized plant tissue and 1 cell that retains its meristematic (see MERISTEM) qualities and is, therefore, available to be the initial for a further division.

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A Dictionary of Biology | 2004 | Copyright

initial One of a group of cells (or, in lower plants, a single cell) that divides to produce the cells of a plant tissue or organ. The cells of the apical meristem, cambium, and cork cambium are initials.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

initial •circumstantial, financial, substantial •court-martial, impartial, marshal, martial, partial •especial, special •cadential, confidential, consequential, credential, deferential, differential, essential, evidential, existential, experiential, exponential, influential, intelligential, irreverential, jurisprudential, penitential, pestilential, potential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, quintessential, referential, residential, reverential, sapiential, sciential, sentential, sequential, tangential, torrential •abbatial, facial, fascial, glacial, interracial, multiracial, palatial, primatial, racial, spatial •artificial, beneficial, initial, interstitial, judicial, official, sacrificial, solstitial, superficial •provincial • seneschal • equinoctial •asocial, precocial, psychosocial, social •crucial, fiducial •bushel •antenuptial, nuptial •commercial, controversial, Herschel, inertial, infomercial

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