inaugurate

verb

1. (transitive)To induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony.

   “[…] 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, […]”

2. (transitive)To dedicate (a building, monument, etc.) for public use by a formal ceremony.

   “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.”

3. (transitive)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.

   “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.”

4. (archaic, rare, transitive)To cause (something) to be auspicious or good-omened; also, to declare or make (something) holy; to consecrate, to sanctify.

   “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.”

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete, transitive)Inducted into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner; inaugurated.

   “[T]he raising up of Jesus, signifies the new state, to which Christ was inaugurate at His resurrection, and contains under it all the severals of ascension, of sitting at the right hand of power, of the mission of the Holy Ghost, and His powerful intercession for us in heaven ever since, and to the end of the world; […]”