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/ɪnˌɔgjərˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Inauguration n.

The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. "At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him."

The formal beginning or initiation of any movement, course of action, etc.; as, the inauguration of a new system, a new condition, etc.

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... possessed considerable influence over the "roughs," he became a valuable man to the city politicians. As a compensation for his services, they allowed him to receive a small office, from which he pushed his way into the old Board of Supervisors, and eventually into the State Senate. Upon the inauguration of the New Charter, he became President of the Board of Public Works, and the most prominent leader of the Ring. He is a man of considerable executive ability, and has known how to use his gifts for his own gain. In March, 1870, the New York ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... of the inauguration were concluded, Genghis Khan returned, with the officers of his court and his immediate followers, to Karakorom. This town, though nominally the capital of the empire, was, after all, quite an insignificant place. Indeed, but little importance was attached to any villages ...

— Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series • Jacob Abbott

... June I was present at the ceremony of admission into the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Counts Zichy, Wratislaw, and Salm Reifferscheit were, at their own request, installed as knights of the Sepulchre. The inauguration took ...

— A Visit to the Holy Land • Ida Pfeiffer

... Expectations at St. Germains by a solemn Protestation, that he wou'd never sheath his Sword till he saw him upon the Throne of his Ancestors, by which I suppose he understood no more than that titular Inauguration which was settled upon his Father at the Peace of Reswick. For had not the Affair of the Spanish Monarchy prompted France to this generous Declaration in Favour of the Son, 'tis highly probable ...

— Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) • Daniel Defoe

... dimly-lighted shop to be cut out of a piece of zinc roofing, so solid was it by reason of alloy with all kinds of foreign matter. Oddly attired as he was, the man was an artist of no small intellectual power, and ten years later he was destined to assist in the inauguration of the great but ...

— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac

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