INAUGURATIO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INAUGURATION. This word was applied by the Romans to the ceremony of 
  dedicating some temple, or raising some man to the priesthood, after the 
  augurs had been consulted. It was afterwards applied to the installation
  (q.v.) of the emperors, kings, and prelates, in imitation of the ceremonies
  of 
  the Romans when they entered into 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.