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borrowed from Frenchinaugurer(“to inaugurate”), from Latininaugurāre, the presentactiveinfinitive of inaugurō(“to take omens from the flight of birds, to divine, practise augury; to approve, consecrate, or inaugurate on the basis of omens; to install”); or
+ English-ate(suffix meaning ‘to act in ’). Inaugurō is derived from in-(prefix meaning ‘against; into; on, upon; to, towards’) + augurō(“to act as an augur, interpret omens, augur; to foretell, predict; to conjecture, guess”) (from augur(“soothsayer, augur”) (further etymology uncertain; see the entry) + -ō(suffix forming regular first-conjugationverbs)).
[…]Cn[aeus] Cornelius Dolabella vvas inaugurat or inſtalled king of the ſacrifices, in ſteed of Marcus Martius, vvho died tvvo years before.
1606, William Warner, “The Fourteenth Booke. Chapter LXXXII.”, in A Continuance of Albions England:, London: Felix Kyngston for George Potter,, →OCLC, page 344:
More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne.
Our Long-ſhanks [Edward I of England], Scotlands ſcourge: vvho to the Oreads raught / His Scepter, and vvith him from vvilde Albania brought / The reliques of her Crovvne (by him firſt placed here) / The ſeat on vvhich her Kings inaugurated vvere.
England, at the time of which we are treating, abounded with fickle and selfish politicians, who transferred their support to every government as it rose, who kissed the hand of the King [Charles I of England] in 1640, and spat in his face in 1649, who shouted with equal glee when [Oliver] Cromwell was inaugurated in Westminster Hall, and when he was dug up to be hanged at Tyburn, […]
2008 February 21, “Solar energy: The power of concentration: A new type of power plant harnesses the sun—and taxpayers”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-03:
On February 22nd, at an event featuring film stars, astronauts and technology gurus, Acciona, a Spanish conglomerate, is due to inaugurate a new power plant a few miles from Las Vegas.
The sun!—he came up to be viewed; / And sky and sea made mighty room / To inaugurate the vision!
1865, David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone, chapter XXI, in Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa. 1858–1864, London: John Murray,, →OCLC, page 428:
Had Mr. Sunley performed the same experiment on the mainland, where people would have flocked to him for the wages he now gives, he would certainly have inaugurated a new era on the East Coast of Africa.
About Nevvyeers-tide after his return from thence (for thoſe beginnings of years vvere very propitious unto him, as if Kings did chuſe remarkable dayes to inaugurate their favours, that they may appeare acts aſvvell of the Times, as of the VVill) he vvas Created Marqueſs of Buckingham, and made Lord Admirall of England, […]
1897 February 2, P[eter] le Page Renouf, “Book of the Dead. [Chapter CXXX. A Book whereby the Soul is Made to Live for ever, on the Day of Entering into the Bark of Rā, and to Pass the Sheniu of the Tuat. Made on the Birthday of Osiris.]”, in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archæology, volume XIX, part 2, London: Society [of Biblical Archaeology],, →OCLC, page 67:
The OsirisNinaugurateth the paths of Rā and prayeth that he may drive off the Lock which cometh out of the flame against thy Bark out of the great Stream.
1644, Henry Hammond, “Sermon IX. Being an Easter Sermon at St. Mary’s in Oxford, a.d. 1644. The Blessing Influence of Christ’s Resurrection.”, in Thirty-one Sermons Preached on Several Occasions (Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology; 21), part I, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Henry Parker, published 1849, →OCLC, page 188:
[T]he raising up of Jesus, signifies the new state, to which Christ was inaugurate at His resurrection, and contains under it all the severals of ascension, of sitting at the right hand of power, of the mission of the Holy Ghost, and His powerful intercession for us in heaven ever since, and to the end of the world; […]
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