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inauguration|ɪnɔːgjʊəˈreɪʃən|
[ad. L. inaugurātiōn-em consecration or instalment under good auspices or omens, n. of action from inaugurāre: cf. F. inauguration (-acion), (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The action of inaugurating; formal induction, institution, or ushering in, with auspicious ceremonies.
1. Formal or ceremonial induction to an office or dignity; consecration, investiture, installation.
1569in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Q. Scots App. (1824) 59 Our Soverane Lordis coronatioun and inauguratioun in his kingdom was ratyfeit and found gude. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 56 Eusebius..was appointed to celebrate with a sermon the inauguration of Constantinus the emperor. 1627in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) I. 214 Dr. Bargrave's sermon at the King's Anniversary Inauguration, March 27. 1752J. Gill Trinity vii. 143 The Father's solemn inauguration of him into his kingly office. 1789A. Hamilton Wks. (1886) VII. 44 The day..of the inauguration of the President, which completed the organization of the Constitution. 1822J. Flint Lett. Amer. 121 The inauguration of the professors of the university of Lexington occasioned much stir to-day. 1861Mill Autobiog. iv. (1874) 123, I have always dated from these conversations my own real inauguration as an original and independent thinker.
2. The formal or definite commencement or introduction of a course of action, an important era or period of time, etc.
1856Froude Hist. Eng. I. 292 To the one it was the advent of Antichrist, to the other the inauguration of the millennium. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 219 It was the inauguration of privateering.
3. The formal introduction of something into public use with appropriate ceremonies, as the opening of a building or park, the unveiling of a statue, fountain, etc.
1861[see inaugurate v. 5]. 1865Pall Mall G. 31 Aug. 10/1 Another ludicrous perversion of a word of Latin origin is the popular use of the word ‘inauguration’ as applied to the uncovering of a statue or a monument.
4. attrib. usually in sense 1: = inaugural.
1686Wood Life 6 Feb. (O.H.S.) III. 179 King's inauguration day kept very solemnly at Oxford. 1741Middleton Cicero I. vi. 425 Cicero was invited to the inauguration feast. 1772Foote Nabob iii. Wks. 1799 II. 314 An inauguration-speech is required. 1893K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver's Problem (1894) xvii. 185 As it chances to be a presidential year, we will celebrate Inauguration Day. 1897Daily News 5 Mar. 8/3 The inauguration exercises took place to-day..Mr. McKinley delivered his inaugural address in the open air in front of the Capitol. 1948Denison (Texas) Herald 1 July 4/3 That was when Inauguration Day was changed from March 4 to January 20, for Roosevelt's second term.
¶ Erroneously explained: cf. inaugurate v.
1658Phillips, Inauguration, an asking counsel of Augures or Soothsayers. |