INITIAL

a. n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.

2.
a.

Placed at the beginning; standing at the head, as of a list or series; as, the initial letters of a name.

3.
n.

The first letter of a word or a name.

4.
v.

To put an initial to; to mark with an initial of initials. [R.]

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