Inaugurative

Grant, and the council gave their usual inaugurative banquet, and a very distinguished company was present. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Word of God so distinctly intimates, it may be that some such plan as this, far more perfect and world-wide in its aim, will form part of the inaugurative forces of that happy lot. ❋ Commissioner Booth-Tucker (1891)

I saw much of O'Shanassy at the outset of Victorian legislation, when he and I, in 1851-3, sat together as colleagues for Melbourne in the single chamber of that inaugurative time, and afterwards when we were associated in the Goldfields Commission, 1854-5. ❋ William Westgarth (1852)

I am of opinion that originally the Beltane festival was held at the Spring equinox but that its original connection with the equinox, in process of time was forgotten, and it became a festival inaugurative of summer. ❋ James Napier (1847)

The Versace Group celebrated the recent openings of its three new Versace boutiques, an impressive Versace 600 square meter flagship, a Versace fine Jewellery boutique, and a Versace Home boutique, with a triple inaugurative evening cocktail held simultaneously at each venue on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 in the prestigious Dubai Mall in Dubai, ❋ Unknown (2009)