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But after so many inauguratory gratulations, nuptial hymns, and funeral dirges, he must be highly favoured by nature, or by fortune, who says any thing not said before.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel

About twenty surveys were ordered to be discontinued as an inauguratory measure, causing the loss of many thousand pounds, independent of such contingencies as the "Memnon."

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Baroness Harder and her daughter had made and received the necessary inauguratory visits, and the former lady had observed with much satisfaction the respect and deference everywhere shown them on the Governor's account.

From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

The charge did not then seem to threaten to be an anxiously large one, and in any case his inauguratory office might hardly remove him from the accustomed instruction of superiors.

From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by Westgarth, William