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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



... EMPIRE: its Value and its Growth. An Inaugural Address delivered at the Imperial Institute, November 20, ...
— A Woman's Part in a Revolution • Natalie Harris Hammond
... the loose sheets of manuscript and stood reading his inaugural of the new New Day. As she read she forgot the petty matter that had so agitated her a moment before. This salutatory—this address to the working class—this plan of a campaign to take Remsen City ...
— The Conflict • David Graham Phillips
... Governor Wolcott's inaugural placed before the Assembly the following subjects for consideration: (1) A new system of taxation; for, as the governor pointed out, the capitation tax was equivalent to about one-sixteenth of the laboring ...
— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.
... his whole character seemed to be changed. Instead of the relentless partisan of the past, he became the apostle of benevolence and charity. His inaugural address, in that florid rhetoric of which he was master, enunciated principles of government to which no friend of human liberty could object. The spirit of conciliation breathed in every sentence. "Every difference ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 • Various
... was there more appropriate a setting for one of those inaugural chapters in mating, half appreciated at the time, that glimmer as a sort of morning twilight on mountain tops over the mild undulations of matrimony. The moon rode without a masking cloud across the ambiguous night blue of the California sky, a blue that looks like the fire of strange ...
— Rezanov • Gertrude Atherton


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