inaugurate
verb (used with object)
inaugurator
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a word derived from
inaugurate.
Example Sentences
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He is not the precursor but the inaugurator of the era.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Lorenzo de' Medici was the last apologist for the mother speech, as he was the first and chief inaugurator of the age when such apologies were no longer to be needed.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
He has the honor of being the inaugurator of the system of progressive improvement in fire-arms, which has gone on steadily and without flagging for now fully sixty years past.
From Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe
The multitudinous philosophies may thus be reduced to a single quaternion, and the reputed inaugurator of a new philosophy is like to be a charlatan.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
Patroness of parturition, Pray make this a special mission; Prove a kind inaugurator Of my votive incubator!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 by Various
