inaugurate

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Napoleon shrewdly foresaw the increase of popular discontent with the repressive measures which the reactionary sovereigns and statesmen of Europe were bound to inaugurate, and in the resulting upheaval he thought he could see an opportunity for his beloved son to build anew an empire of the French.

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  1. transitive verb To induct into office by a formal ceremony.
  2. transitive verb To cause to begin, especially officially or formally: inaugurate a new immigration policy. See Synonyms at begin.
  3. transitive verb To open or begin use of formally with a ceremony; dedicate: inaugurate a community center.

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  • We inaugurate, with this column, something no other film columnist proffers: THE SECRET AGENDA. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 06 - December 1994
  • Those critics, headed by small political parties have made the local government make the decision not to officially inaugurate it on September 18. —  Art Knowledge News
  • Microsoft may also use next week's event to formally inaugurate some critical new technologies, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V -- now available in its final form after into public beta in April. —  InternetNews Realtime News for IT Managers
  • Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez arrived in Teheran, Iran, on Wednesday night to deepen bilateral cooperation between the two countries, inaugurate a joint bank, and discuss the creation of bi-national mining companies. —  axisoflogic.com
  • This will only become a reality once the Dalit-Bahujan masses undergo a process of Cultural Revolution or, dialectically speaking, it is the very writing of this history that will inaugurate the Cultural Revolution for Dalit-Bahujan masses. —  Countercurrents.org
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inaugurate:   inaugurating ·  inaugurated
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  1. Latin inaugurāre, inaugurāt-, to consecrate by augury : in-, intensive pref.; see in-2 + augurāre, to augur (from augur, soothsayer; see aug- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Latin inauguratus, past participle of inaugurare (later ult. English inaugur), practise augury, divine, consecrate or install into office with augural ceremonies, from in, in, + augur, an augur: see augur. Cf. exaugurate.
  2. = Spanish Portuguese inaugurado, from Latin inauguratus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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