Inaugurate definition

ĭn-ôgyə-rāt, -gə-
inaugurated inaugurates inaugurating
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To induct into office by a formal ceremony.
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To cause to begin, especially officially or formally.

Inaugurate a new immigration policy.

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To open or begin use of formally with a ceremony; dedicate.

Inaugurate a community center.

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To induct (an official) into office with a formal ceremony.
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To make a formal beginning of; start.

To inaugurate a new policy.

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To celebrate formally the first public use of; dedicate.

To inaugurate a new library.

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To induct into office with a formal ceremony.
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To dedicate ceremoniously; to initiate something in a formal manner.
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Invested with office; inaugurated.

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Origin of inaugurate

  • Latin inaugurāre inaugurāt- to consecrate by augury in- intensive pref. in–2 augurāre to augur (from augur soothsayer aug- in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French inaugurer (“to invest”), from Latin inaugurō (“approve on the basis of omens”), from in (“in”) + augur (“an augur”).

    From Wiktionary

Inaugurate Sentence Examples

  • The consequences of this blow were momentous; it may be said to inaugurate the ghetto period.

  • The Society of St Vincent de Paul was founded by Frederic Ozanam and others in 1833, in reply to a charge brought by some free-thinking contemporaries that the church no longer had the strength to inaugurate a practical enterprise.

  • The year 1533 was to inaugurate the new era; Strassburg was to be the seat of the New Jerusalem.

  • She helped to inaugurate the society for the prevention of cruelty to children, and was a keen supporter of the ragged school union.

  • It was not, however, until March 1901 that Milner, who resigned his governorship of Cape Colony, arrived at Pretoria to inaugurate a civil administration.

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