inaugural

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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inaugural (ɪnˈɔːɡjʊrəl)

—*adj*
1.	characterizing or relating to an inauguration

—n
2.	a speech made at an inauguration, esp by a president of the US

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Example sentences

Including a clear announcement on this in your inaugural will make for great

headlines.

Sure, you can't see an inaugural every year-but this is one parade that's well

worth the wait.

Gone, as well, will be the grand approach as a triumphant mayor wades through

the crowds for his big inaugural close-up.

The inaugural event was small, but residents were proud, and many marched with

tongues firmly in cheeks.

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Matching Quote

"He saw Mr. Lincoln but once; at the melancholy function called an Inaugural Ball. Of course he looked anxiously for a sign of character. He saw a long, awkward figure; a plain, ploughed face; a mind, absent in part, and in part evidently worried by white kid gloves; features that expressed neither self-satisfaction nor any other familiar Americanism, but rather the same painful sense of becoming educated and of needing education that tormented a private secretary, above all a lack of apparent force. Any private secretary in the least fit for his business would have thought, as Adams did, that no man living needed so much education as the new President but that all the education he could get would not be enough."

-Henry Brooks Adams