Inauguration
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A word applied by the Romans to the ceremony of dedicating a temple, or raising a man to the priesthood, after the axrgurs had been consulted. It was afterwards applied to the inatallation of emperors, kings, and prelates, in imitation of the ceremonies of the Romans when they entered the temple of the augurs. It is applied in the United States to the installation of the chief magistrate of the republic, and of the governors of the several states.