INAUGURATE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Inaugurate

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪnˈɔgjərɪt/ /ɪnˈɔgjəreɪt/ Listen

verb

Inaugurate v. t. (past & past part. inaugurated; pres. part. inaugurating)

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.

To cause to begin, esp. with formality or solemn ceremony; hence, to set in motion, action, or progress; to initiate; used especially of something of dignity or worth or public concern; as, to inaugurate a new era of things, new methods, etc. "As if kings did choose remarkable days to inaugurate their favors."

To celebrate the completion of, or the first public use of; to dedicate, as a statue. (Colloq.)

To begin with good omens. (Obs.)

adjective

Inaugurate adj. Invested with office; inaugurated.

See images of 'Inaugurate'

Etymology of 'Inaugurate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Inaugurate" Quotes from Famous Books

... preparation, will contain information and suggestions which will be of value to Congress, and which I will transmit as soon as it is completed. As long as the insurrection continues the military arm must necessarily be supreme. But there is no reason why steps should not be taken from time to time to inaugurate governments essentially popular in their form as fast as territory is held and controlled by our troops. To this end I am considering the advisability of the return of the Commission, or such of the members thereof ...

— Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. • William McKinley

... not diminish my solicitude as to its character. If, after the recent scandalous proceedings in another court, you, as a special jury in this High Court of Justice, bring in a verdict of Guilty against me and my co-defendant, you will decisively inaugurate a new era of persecution, in which no advantage can accrue to truth or morality, but in which fierce passions will be kindled, oppression and resistance matched against each other, and the land perhaps disgraced with violence ...

— Prisoner for Blasphemy • G. W. [George William] Foote

... between diggers in the lawless West, and will lead as directly to the arbitrament of blows. So that the establishment of the communal system will not only reintroduce all the injustices and heart-burnings of economic inequality, but will, in all human likelihood, inaugurate a world of hedgerow warfare. Dorchester will march on Poole, Sherborne on Dorchester, Wimborne on both; the waggons will be fired on as they follow the highway, the trains wrecked on the lines, the ploughman will go armed into the field of tillage; and if we have not ...

— Lay Morals • Robert Louis Stevenson

... instrument of tyranny. The population became as intemperate as their rulers had been, thousands perished by the guillotine, and the reign of terror was established. The National Convention proclaimed a republic; but this body was divided by conflicting opinions, and had not the power to inaugurate their ideal government. Blood flowed in rivers, and the reaction was infinitely more terrible than the tyranny which ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 • Various

... of the form for call-over and the arrival of the form-master, some wag is sure either to stamp on the shoes, accompanying the act with some satirical remark, or else to pull one of them off, and inaugurate an impromptu game of football with it. There was once a boy who went to school one morning in ...

— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse

More quotes...