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LNS

inaugurō, inaugurāre, inaugurāvī, inaugurātus

in, auguro

verb (1^st conjugation)

To take omens from the flight of birds, to practise augury, to divine
To give a certain sanctity to, by ceremony of consulting the flight of birds, to consecrate, inaugurate, install
to install

Abbreviations

in-auguro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. Lit. To take omens from the flight of birds, to practise augury, to divine: per sacram viam augures ex arce profecti solent inaugurare, Varr. L. L. 5, § 47 Mull.: impetritum, inauguratum'st: quovis admittunt aves, Plaut. As. 2, 1, 11: Palatinum Romulus, Aventinum Remus ad inaugurandum templa capiunt, Liv. 1, 6, 4: agedum, divine tu, inaugura, fierine possit, quod nunc ego mente concipio, Liv. 1, 36, 4.

—Hence, b. inaugurāto, adv. (lit. abl. absol.), after consulting the birds: id quia inaugurato Romulus fecerat, Liv. 1, 36, 3: consecrare locum, id. 1, 44, 4.

— Transf. To give a certain sanctity to a place or (official) person by ceremony of consulting the flight of birds, to consecrate, inaugurate, install: locum, Liv. 3, 20, 6: VRBEM (Romulus) Calend. Praenest. ap. Inscr. Orell. 2, p. 386: cur non inaugurare? Sume diem; vide, qui te inauguret, Cic. Phil. 2, 43, 110: augur in locum ejus inauguratus est filius, Liv. 30, 26, 10; so, aliquem flaminem, id. 27, 8, 4; 41, 28, 7.

— In gen., to install: cena et poculis magnis inauguratur (dux latronum), App. M. 7, p. 191: comitia, quae habentur aut regis aut flaminum inaugurandorum causa, Lab. ap. Gell. 15, 27, 1: si flamines Diales inaugurentur, Gai. Inst. 1, 130.