Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who inaugurates; one who begins or initiates.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who inaugurates.

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  • noun Agent noun of inaugurate; one who inaugurates.

Etymologies

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inaugurate + -er

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Examples

  • (1596-1650), rightly described as the inaugurator of modern philosophy, thus held the view that only in his own thought-activity does man find

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • Paul de Man, a Yale professor and inaugurator of deconstruction in the United States, was found after his death to have written over a hundred articles for the Belgian collaborationist newspaper Le Soir.

    enowning enowning 2009

  • It is too much of an embarassment to them that Jesus may have thought that the kingdom of God was about to come and in fact he was its inaugurator.

    Inigo Montoya Addresses Fundamentalists James F. McGrath 2009

  • Paul de Man, a Yale professor and inaugurator of deconstruction in the United States, was found after his death to have written over a hundred articles for the Belgian collaborationist newspaper Le Soir.

    Archive 2009-06-01 enowning 2009

  • As the inaugurator of a performance and composition tradition of song, drums, and dances in Israel, Miriam continues to resonate throughout its musical life (see Pss 68: 25; 81: 2; 150: 4).

    Miriam: Bible. 2009

  • Euripides proposed Laïus father of Oedipus as the inaugurator, whereas Timæus declared that the fashion of making favourites of boys was introduced into Greece from Crete, for Malthusian reasons said Aristotle (Pol.ii. 10), attributing it to Minos.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In this letter Trotter reminded Wilson of his support for him and his continued belief that Wilson could be “the inaugurator of a new era of equal rights for Colored Americans.”

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • In this letter Trotter reminded Wilson of his support for him and his continued belief that Wilson could be “the inaugurator of a new era of equal rights for Colored Americans.”

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • In this letter Trotter reminded Wilson of his support for him and his continued belief that Wilson could be “the inaugurator of a new era of equal rights for Colored Americans.”

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • Jesus valued his kinsman John as highly as anyone could value another—as a Prophet and Teacher, and inaugurator of the Kingdom of God.

    The Jesus Dynasty James D. Tabor 2006

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