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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone

esoteric
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: 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...
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They are special because they have this insiders' knowledge.
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Jackson6612esoteric
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: 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.

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