inaugurate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Either:
* borrowed from French inaugurer (“to inaugurate”), from Latin inaugurō (“to take omens from the flight of birds, to divine, practise augury; to approve, consecrate, or inaugurate on the basis of omens; to install”) with common assimilation of French -er with English -ate (verb-forming suffix)
* or a Learned borrowing from Latin inaugurātus, perfect passive participle of inaugurō, see etymology at -ate;
Further from in- (“against; into; on, upon; to, towards”) + augurō (“to act as an augur, interpret omens, augur; to foretell, predict; to conjecture, guess”), from augur (“soothsayer, augur”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (further etymology uncertain; see the entry).
Base: augurō
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: inaugurates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inaugurating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inaugurated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inaugurated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: inaugurate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: inaugurate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: inaugurated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: inaugurate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: inauguratest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: inaugurated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: inauguratedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: inaugurates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inaugurateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: inaugurated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: inaugurate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: inaugurated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: inaugurate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: inaugurated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: inaugurate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: inaugurating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inaugurated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] Cn[aeus] Cornelius Dolabella vvas inaugurat or inſtalled king of the ſacrifices, in ſteed of Marcus Martius, vvho died tvvo yeares before.
More to theyr proper Elements inaugurated none, / Than ſhee to hers by-paſſed, he to his poſſeſſed Throne.
Our Long-ſhanks [Edward I of England], Scotlands ſcourge: vvho to the Orcads raught / His Scepter, and vvith him from vvilde Albania brought / The reliques of her Crovvne (by him firſt placed here) / The ſeat on vvhich her Kings inaugurated vvere.
England, at the time of which we are treating, abounded with fickle and selfish politicians, who transferred their support to every government as it rose, who kissed the hand of the King [Charles I of England] in 1640, and spat in his face in 1649, who shouted with equal glee when [Oliver] Cromwell was inaugurated in Westminster Hall, and when he was dug up to be hanged at Tyburn, […]
gloss: To dedicate (a building, monument, etc.) for public use by a formal ceremony.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: On February 22nd, at an event […], Acciona, a Spanish conglomerate, is due to inaugurate a new power plant a few miles from Las Vegas.
The Holy Father presided over a ceremony to inaugurate the 100th fountain in the Vatican Gardens behind St. Peter's Basilica on Monday morning.
gloss: To initiate or usher in (something, as a (significant) course of action, development, organization, or period of time) with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner; also (loosely), to begin or commence (something); to start.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sun!—he came up to be viewed; / And sky and sea made mighty room / To inaugurate the vision!
Had Mr. Sunley performed the same experiment on the mainland, where people would have flocked to him for the wages he now gives, he would certainly have inaugurated a new era on the East Coast of Africa.
gloss: To cause (something) to be auspicious or good-omened; also, to declare or make (something) holy; to consecrate, to sanctify.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
rare
transitive
examples: About Nevvyeers-tide after his return from thence (for thoſe beginnings of years vvere very propitious unto him, as if Kings did chuſe remarkable dayes to inaugurate their favours, that they may appeare acts aſvvell of the Times, as of the VVill) he vvas Created Marqueſs of Buckingham, and made Lord Admirall of England, […]
The Osiris N inaugurateth the paths of Rā and prayeth that he may drive off the Lock which cometh out of the flame against thy Bark out of the great Stream.
Related words: augur
augural
augurate
inaugur
inaugural
inauguration
inaugurator
Derived words: inaugurative
inaugurator
reinaugurate
uninaugurated
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِفْتَتَحَ
roman: iftataḥa
lang: Bulgarian
word: откривам
roman: otkrivam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 開幕 /开幕
roman: kāimù
lang: Esperanto
word: inaŭguri
lang: Finnish
word: vihkiä
lang: German
word: vereidigen
lang: Greek
word: εγκαινιάζω
roman: egkainiázo
lang: Hindi
word: उद्घाटन
roman: udghāṭan
lang: Hungarian
word: felavat
lang: Latin
word: auspicor
lang: Portuguese
word: inaugurar
lang: Slovene
word: otvoriti
lang: Spanish
word: inaugurar
lang: Swedish
word: inviga