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Inaugurate   /ɪnˈɔgjərɪt/  /ɪnˈɔgjəreɪt/   Listen
Inaugurate

verb
(past & past part. inaugurated; pres. part. inaugurating)
1.
Commence officially.  Synonym: kick off.
2.
Open ceremoniously or dedicate formally.
3.
Be a precursor of.  Synonyms: introduce, usher in.






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"Inaugurate" Quotes from Famous Books



... I am right, though I doubt whether I shall live to see myself proved to be so. Those who are the first to inaugurate this movement will scarcely live to see its glorious close. But the inauguration of it is enough to give them a feeling of pride and ...
— The Jewish State • Theodor Herzl

... Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York pledges its hearty and cordial support to such measures as the Government of the United States may, in its wisdom, inaugurate and carry through in the blockade ...
— Key-Notes of American Liberty • Various

... Indian of any note to welcome those first pioneer missionaries, the Pond brothers. As early as 1834 he encouraged them to erect their home and inaugurate their work in his village. In all the treaties formed between the government and the Sioux, he was ever the ready and able advocate of the white man's cause. He threw all the weight of his powerful influence in favor of cession to the United States government of the military reservation ...
— Among the Sioux - A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas • R. J. Creswell

... dignified, but there was an exultant strut in his walk and a special deliberation in his voice which proclaimed his pride in his junior partner. He alluded, in his dry, nasal way, to the pleasure it gave him to inaugurate the new era in politics in Rock River. "The liquor question I regard as settled in this State," he said. "And now the discussion of the tariff has free sailing. But you don't want to hear us old fellows, with our prejudices; you want to hear our young ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland

... some of them are mere episodes, in which the action is irrelevant, and sometimes he boldly ends an elaborate romance without any dramatic denouement at all. We believe that Honore de Balzac was the first of European writers to inaugurate the novel without denouement, and to give the world examples of the literary torso whose beauty and charm consist not in its completeness, but in the vigor and life-like animation of the lines, features, and contours of a ...
— Introduction to the Dramas of Balzac • Epiphanius Wilson and J. Walker McSpadden


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