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inaugurate

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1. inaugurate - Adjective

2. inaugurate - Verb

Meaning

Invested with office; inaugurated.

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.

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

To begin with good omens.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Whoever exploits retrograde oxidising processes must inevitably inaugurate a scarcity and shortage of food, raw materials and fuels. Viktor Schauberger

Surrounded by countless people who murmur my name and call me 'maître', I am about to inaugurate the exhibition of my one hundred illustrations of the Divine Comedy at the Galliera Museum. Salvador Dalí

I inaugurate through science The hymn of all hearts spiritual. Stéphane Mallarmé

Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. Barack Obama

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last. Jay Sekulow

Heaven... is the eternal kingdom Christ will inaugurate at His second coming. Paul Enns

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