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▪ I. † iˈnauguratory, n. Obs.
[f. L. inaugurāt- (see inaugurate v.) + -ory: cf. laboratory, observatory.]
A place for the ceremony of inauguration.
1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 120 His whole Endeavour hath been..to make our Antiquity designed for an Inauguratory of Princes. Ibid. 174 Homage was paid..not in a stony Inauguratory, but on an Hill.
▪ II. inauguratory, a.|ɪˈnɔːgjʊərətərɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ory.]
Pertaining to inauguration; = inaugural.
1775Johnson Journ. West. Isl., St. Andrews, An inauguratory speech by the present chancellor. 1779–81― L.P., Dryden Wks. III. 390 Inauguratory gratulations. 1865Grote Plato I. v. 178 A sort of..inauguratory composition for the opening of his school. |