inaugural

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president)
noun the ceremonial induction into a position
adjective occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction

From French inaugural, from inaugurer, from Latin augurare (“to take omens”).

FOOTNOTES: [55] Inaugural Address to the Students of King's College for Women, University of London, October 8, 1909. — Studies in Literature and History, Alfred C., Sir Lyall
THE TRUE STORY OF BOB'S LOSING THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS Mr. Lincoln was always lenient when the offense was against himself. — The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln, Wayne Whipple
But he was compelled also to refer to slavery and did so in the sense of Lincoln's inaugural, asserting that the North had no purpose of emancipating the slaves. — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams

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