Difference between Initiate and Enlightened

Initiate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To begin, to start, to introduce.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A new member of an organization. One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.

Example sentence: Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

Enlightened

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: educated or informedMade aware of somethingFreed from illusionExceedingly wise

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Someone who has been introduced to the mysteries of some activity, religion especially Buddhism

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To supply with light.

Example sentence: In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.