inaugurate
verb (used with object)
inaugurator
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a word derived from
inaugurate.
Example Sentences
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James Watt was the inaugurator of the era of refinement of the machine already invented, and the greatest of its builders and distributors.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various
The inaugurator of the new school was Jacques Perk, a young poet of indubitable genius, who was influenced to some degree by Shelley, and by the Florence of the Dutch Browning, Potgieter.
From Footsteps of Fate by Louis Couperus
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
As poet and lover he was the inaugurator of a new world; here he represents the culmination and conclusion of the condemned world-system.
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
For another thing, Christ meant more to Christians than the inaugurator of a postponed kingdom which, long awaited with ardent expectation, still did not arrive; Christ was the giver of eternal life now.
From Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick
