initial
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1. initial - Noun
2. initial - Adjective
3. initial - Verb
4. initial - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.
To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment.
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.