单词 | inauguration |
释义 | inaugurationn. The action of inaugurating; formal induction, institution, or ushering in, with auspicious ceremonies. 1. Formal or ceremonial induction to an office or dignity; consecration, investiture, installation. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > formal or ceremonial appointment stalling1387 vestiture1387 stallation1447 inductiona1464 investurea1513 investiture1549 investing1551 inauguration1569 instalment1589 investion1590 installation1606 vesture1607 installing1610 investment1612 investry1642 investation1657 1569 Earl of Moray Instr. to Ambassador 15 Oct. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Q. Scots (1824) App. 59 Our Soverane Lordis coronatioun and inauguratioun in his kingdom was ratyfeit and found gude. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. iii. 45 Eusebius..was appointed to celebrate with a Sermon the Inauguration of Constantinus the Emperour. 1627 in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times Charles I (1848) (modernized text) I. 214 Dr. Bargrave's sermon at the King's Anniversary Inauguration, March 27. 1752 J. Gill Doctr. Trinity (ed. 2) vii. 143 The Father's solemn inauguration of him into his kingly office. 1789 A. Hamilton Let. 5 May in Papers (1962) II. 336 The day..of the inauguration of the President, which completed the organization of the Constitution. 1822 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. 121 The inauguration of the professors of the university of Lexington occasioned much stir to-day. 1861 J. S. Mill Autobiogr. (1874) iv. 123 I have always dated from these conversations my own real inauguration as an original and independent thinker. 1905 D. G. Phillips Plum Tree 314 It was now less than a month before inauguration. 2. (See quot.) Cf. inaugurate v. 1.Apparently only attested in dictionaries. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > soothsaying > [noun] > consulting soothsayers inauguration1658 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Inauguration, an asking counsel of Augures or Soothsayers. 3. The formal or definite commencement or introduction of a course of action, an important era or period of time, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > inauguration ushering1850 inauguration1856 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 292 To the one it was the advent of Antichrist, to the other the inauguration of the millennium. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 219 It was the inauguration of privateering. 4. The formal introduction of something into public use with appropriate ceremonies, as the opening of a building or park, the unveiling of a statue, fountain, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > inauguration > into public use inauguration1861 1861 Sat. Rev. 22 June 630 Then, why is everything ‘inaugurated’? It is silly enough to talk about the ‘inauguration’ of a new statue; but we have quite got beyond that. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 31 Aug. 10/1 Another ludicrous perversion of a word of Latin origin is the popular use of the word ‘inauguration’ as applied to the uncovering of a statue or a monument. 5. attributive usually in sense 1: = inaugural adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [adjective] > inaugural inauguration1686 inaugural1689 inauguratory1775 inaugurative1853 1686 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 179 King's inauguration day kept very solemnly at Oxford. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero I. vi. 425 Cicero was invited to the inauguration feast. a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 51 An inauguration-speech is required. 1893 K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver's Problem (1894) xvii. 185 As it chances to be a presidential year, we will celebrate Inauguration Day. 1897 Daily News 5 Mar. 8/3 The inauguration exercises took place to-day..Mr. McKinley delivered his inaugural address in the open air in front of the Capitol. 1948 Denison (Texas) Herald 1 July 4/3 That was when Inauguration Day was changed from March 4 to January 20, for Roosevelt's second term. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1569 |
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