# initiatee
## English
### Etymology

From initiate +‎ -ee.

### Noun

initiatee (plural initiatees)
* One who, or that which, is initiated.
    Antonym: initiator
** 1914, Khazan Singh, History and Philosophy of the Sikh Religion (in Two Parts), part II (Philosophy), Lahore: […] [T]he “Newal Kishore” Press, Ld., page 568:The following ceremony is gone into at the time of initiation. When there is more than one initiatee, all should stand in a row facing the Holy Scripture. One of the five reciters then holds the Amrita. Two of them stand on his right and left, the forth stands behind the initiatees to dress their hair from back to the front, if necessary. The fifth pours five handsful, chullas, of Amrita into the buk (palms of both hands joined together in a hollow forming a sort of cup) of the initiatees who drink it at once.
** 1915, Transactions of the Panama Pacific Dental Congress, volume 3, page 312:Initiative is the ability possessed by one person to lay out work for another. The initiator is limited only by hours of wakefulness and the scope of his imagination. He organizes conventions, appoints committees, placing others like himself at their head. And then one of these initiators calls upon the initiatee with imperative command: “Do this,” and he doeth it.
** 1979, Ellen Berscheid, William Graziano, “The Initiation of Social Relationships and Interpersonal Attraction”, in Robert L. Burgess, Ted L. Huston, editors, Social Exchange in Developing Relationships, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →ISBN, part II (The Development Course of Close Relationships), page 52:Thus information processing tendencies on the part of the initiator lead him to direct his relationship with the initiatee along the lines in which he originally perceived the initiatee, lines which are often dictated by stereotypical information.
** 1995, Simone Vauthier, “Little Red Riding Hood Rides Again: A Reading of David Arnason’s “Girl and Wolf””, in Theo D’haen, Hans Bertens, editors, Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism (Postmodern Studies; 11), Amsterdam, Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 150:Furthermore, the initiatee is the one who takes the initiative, with gestures that again seem to fall short of girlish ignorance. The narrator’s judgment that the girl is “inexperienced but active” cannot quite restore coherency to her image, which remains contradictory. Hence, the act of initiation as such becomes subtly devalued.
** 2000, William McMillen, Sticks, Chelsea, Mich.: Sleeping Bear Press, →ISBN, page 265:May usually enjoyed the camaraderie of the senior initiation process. She had been doing it for so long on the “initiator’s” side that she had no sense of the agony of the “initiatees.”
** 2001, S. A. Abioye, Basic Text on West African Traditional Religion: For Higher Education, Immaculate-City Publishers, →ISBN, page 108:Then we have the drama of breaking the pot. This is when an initiatee dies during the period of initiation. A pot is carried to the house of the initiatee and is allowed it to drop broken infront of the parents.
** 2001, Steve Steinke, “Network and Transport Layer Protocols”, in Network Magazine: The Competitive Edge in Business Technology, volume 16, numbers 1–6, page 34:When a TCP connection is established, the initiating host sends an arbitrary initial sequence number to the initiatee. The initiatee adds 1 to the sequence number and returns it to the initiator in the acknowledgement field, thereby indicating the next byte that should be sent.
** 2002, Randall R. Stewart, Qiaobing Xie, Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP): A Reference Guide, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 101:All of this discussion will revolve around the initiatee because we presume that the initiator has enough resources to start the association and is doing everything it can to get the association up. If the sender of the INIT (the initiator) does not have enough resources to begin an association, it should reject the upper layer’s request before sending out the INIT. Now, the receiver of the INIT, the initiatee, does not have this luxury.
** 2004, California Small Business Guide: Formation, Operation, and Taxation, volume 4, LexisNexis, →ISBN, page 41-45:[…] initiate the buy-out (initiator) will give the other stockholder or stockholders (initiatee) notice of the desired buy-out and the buy-out terms acceptable to the initiator. The initiatee then has an opportunity either to accept the offer of the initiator to be bought out, or to buy-out the initiator on the same terms and conditions of the initiator’s offer. Failure of the initiatee to respond to the offer may be interpreted as acceptance of the offer.
** 2006, Adamu Ibrahim Zata, The Yungur in Perspective: A Socio-Cultural and Political Survey, Yola, Adamawa: Paraclete Publishers, →ISBN, page 47:The Chief initiator otherwise known as Bile Hono lits fire on a small tied bundle of grass (Säyo) […]. The multitudes of the initiatees now jump into the water simultaneously each trying to cross the river.
** 2021, Joseph I. Okogun, The Life of An Enigma: A Biographical Account of the Life and the Times of John Okogun Omovuon of Ewohimi (Ebhokimi), Nigeria, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 60:The initiatee was asked to plead in various ways and taken through the ordeal. Eventually the masquerade rises and is revealed to the initiatee as being a person. The initiatee must never tell the secret to the uninitiated.