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Another word for inaugurate

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Verb

  1. To admit formally into membership or office, as with ritual

    See also:

    accept

  2. To go about the initial step in doing (something)

    Idioms:
    See also:

    start

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Another word for inaugurate

Verb
  1. See also:

    begin

    begin

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Sentence Examples

  • to inaugurate the new order of things.

  • The consequences of this blow were momentous; it may be said to inaugurate the ghetto period.

  • inaugurate the heroic age of the Catholic reformation and restoration.

  • The Society of St Vincent de Paul was founded by Frederic Ozanam and others in 1833, in reply to a charge brought by some free-thinking contemporaries that the church no longer had the strength to inaugurate a practical enterprise.

  • The year 1533 was to inaugurate the new era; Strassburg was to be the seat of the New Jerusalem.

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