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Inaugural   /ɪnˈɔgərəl/  /ɪnˈɔgjərəl/   Listen
Inaugural

adjective
1.
Occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction.  "An inaugural ball"
2.
Serving to set in motion.  Synonyms: first, initiative, initiatory, maiden.  "The initiative phase in the negotiations" , "An initiatory step toward a treaty" , "His first (or maiden) speech in Congress" , "The liner's maiden voyage"
noun
1.
An address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president).  Synonym: inaugural address.
2.
The ceremonial induction into a position.  Synonym: inauguration.



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"Inaugural" Quotes from Famous Books



... qui in expeditione contra Russian anno MDCCCXII facta legiones Wuerttembergica invaserunt, praesertim eorem, qui frigore orti sunt. Inaugural Dissertation. Tuebingen, 1820. ...
— Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 • Achilles Rose
... Insontium is extremely extensive. There is a bibliography at the end of Duncan Bulkley's Syphilis in the Innocent, and a comprehensive summary of the question in a Leipzig Inaugural Dissertation by F. Moses, Zur Kasuistik der Extragenitalen ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... those who had joined as volunteers. His gay friend Wilkes had declared that he would be out-distanced in the professional race by dull plodders and blockheads, but at the outset he appears to have started with a fair amount of zest. He dedicated his inaugural thesis to the son of the Earl of Bute, Lord Mountstuart, with whom he had travelled in Italy, and on whom he flattered himself he had made some impression, the first of Boswell's many ineffectual attempts to secure place ...
— James Boswell - Famous Scots Series • William Keith Leask
... think," said Mr Swann, when he came home at six o'clock from his day's majestic work at Toft End. This was in the bedroom. Mrs Swann, a comely little thing of thirty-nine, was making herself resplendent for the inaugural solemnity of the Festival, which began at eight. The news of ...
— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett
... fun and florid rhetoric. It was, in short, a rattling stump speech of the kind then universally popular in the West, and which is still considered a very high grade of eloquence in the South. But it is of no kindred with his inaugural addresses, and resembles the Gettysburg speech no more than "The Comedy of Errors" resembles "Hamlet." One or two extracts will give some idea of its humorous satire and its lurid fervor. Attacking the corruptions and defalcations of the Administration ...
— Abraham Lincoln: A History V1 • John G. Nicolay and John Hay


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