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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone
esoteric
1 a: designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone <a body of esoteric legal doctrine — B. N. Cardozo>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
What does the phrase specially initiated mean?
1 a: designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone <a body of esoteric legal doctrine — B. N. Cardozo>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
What does the phrase specially initiated mean?
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The people who are somehow "in the know" - they have some sort of special knowledge.
- The people who are somehow "in the know" - they have some sort of special knowledge.
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The people who are somehow "in the know" - they have some sort of special knowledge.
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Hi Barbara,
Can you please do the literal translation of specially initiated into simpler English? e.g. specially means for one particular purpose, and only for that purpose...
Can you please do the literal translation of specially initiated into simpler English? e.g. specially means for one particular purpose, and only for that purpose...
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Jackson6612esoteric
1 a: designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone <a body of esoteric legal doctrine — B. N. Cardozo>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
What does the phrase
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Here it's a noun, the way adjectives can be used as nouns like "the rich" or "the young."
... available only to the very rich, for example.
... available only to the very rich, for example.
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