Not initiated; deficient in relevant experience.
People who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity.
1 The uninitiate can hardly realise how impressive is the ceremonial there enacted.
2 Do you know what happens to those uninitiate who learn that secret?
3 The well-informed concert-goer begins to appreciate beauties hidden to the uninitiate .
4 Often it is hard to separate the initiate from the uninitiate , even by those most expert.
5 Whether it was a dark resentment against the uninitiate for peeping into their masonic magnificence, he could not quite conjecture.
6 "The dead," answered Hilda, "will not reveal themselves to eyes uninitiate save at their own will, uncompelled by charm and rune.
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