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Definition of Inaugurate

1. Verb. Commence officially.

2. Verb. Open ceremoniously or dedicate formally.

3. Verb. Be a precursor of. "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period"

Definition of Inaugurate

1. a. Invested with office; inaugurated.

2. v. t. To introduce or induct into an office with suitable ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king.

Definition of Inaugurate

1. Verb. (transitive) To induct into office with a formal ceremony. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To dedicate ceremoniously; to initiate something in a formal manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inaugurate

1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inaugurate

inattentional blindness inattentions inattentive inattentively inattentiveness inaudibilities inaudibility inaudible inaudibleness inaudibly

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Literary usage of Inaugurate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Boys in Blue: Or, Heroes of the "rank and File". Comprising Incidents by Jane Currie Blaikie Hoge (1867)
"Resolution to inaugurate a great Northwestern Sanitary Fair.—Resolution to inaugurate a great Sanitary Fair.—Sketch of the Pioneer Fair. ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1876)
"I inaugurate the telegraph at Martin Garcia under the auspice* of that imprescriptible declaration. May it always remain attached to the destinies of these ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"To inaugurate this scheme of testing, it is necessary to carefully make the whole series of alloys, every one or two per cent. from pure lead to pure tin,. ..."

4. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"To those also who have acquired the use of snowshoes, white fields are fascinating rather than formidable, for they inaugurate a season of invigorating ..."

5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"To those also who have acquired the use of snowshoes, white fields are fascinating rather than formidable, for they inaugurate a season of invigorating ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... proposed to inaugurate a certain process by which inductions might be readily produced from facts by an almost mechanical or mathematical process. tis ..."

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