inaugur

inaugur

English

Etymology

Compare French inaugurer. See inaugurate.

Verb

inaugur (third-person singular simple present inaugurs, present participle inauguring, simple past and past participle inaugured)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To inaugurate.
   • 1549, Hugh Latimer, “The Second Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer, which He Preached before the King’s Majesty [Edward VI], within His Grace’s Palace at Westminster, the Fifteenth Day of March, 1549. To the Reader.”, in George Elwes Corrie, editor, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555 (The Parker Society for the Publication of the Works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church; 27), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University Press, published 1844, OCLC 9396989, page 104:

     Numa Pompilius (who was inaugured and created king of the Romans next after Romulus) was far more careful and busier in grounding of idolatrous religion (as upon rites, ceremonies, sacrifices and superstitions) than we are in the promoting of christian religion, […]

     Modernized from the original 1549 text.

Further reading

• inaugur in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913