Definition of Initial

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Initial

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.

The first letter of a word or a name.

To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials.

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Initial Quotations

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Patrick Swayze

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.
Hannah Arendt

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Paul Cezanne

Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.
Jo Brand

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character.
Charles Barkley

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
Nicholas Sparks

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
James Caan

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
Murray Gell-Mann

Initial Translations

initial in Afrikaans is voorletter
initial in Dutch is initiaal, voorletter
initial in Italian is iniziale
initial in Norwegian is forbokstav, begynnelses-
initial in Portuguese is inicial
initial in Spanish is primitivo, inicial
initial in Swedish is begynnelsebokstav, inledande

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