Verb (used with object), : The end of World War II inaugurated the era of nuclear power. ,Airmail service between Washington, D.C., and New York City was inaugurated in 1918. From Dictionary.com.
(1596-1650), rightly described as the inaugurator of modern philosophy, thus held the view that only in his own thought-activity does man find. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
I answer: Admirable for the purposes of the inaugurator of an age of prose and reason. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Thenceforth this sacrifice is solemnised, and a younger race have gladly kept the day; Potitius the inaugurator, and the. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
James Watt was the inaugurator of the era of refinement of the machine already invented, and the greatest of its builders and distributors. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891] Reference
Perhaps he may turn out to have been right in that impression, and figure as the herald, if not an active inaugurator, of a new era of taste in verse. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
A thorough soldier and yet the inaugurator of a peace policy, a 'Greekling' as his Roman subjects called him, and saturated with Hellenic ideas, and yet a lover of. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
As the inaugurator of a performance and composition tradition of song, drums, and dances in Israel, Miriam continues to resonate throughout its musical life (see Pss 68: 25; 81: 2; 150: 4). From Wordnik.com. [Miriam: Bible.] Reference
Evo's inaugurator arrested for drug possession in El Alto. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive Bloggers] Reference
(France), b. 1835; inaugurator of the Solesmes school of plain-chant. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
The inaugurator of Humanism in Mainz was the prolific author, Dietrich. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
He became the true, the sovereign inaugurator of the Hebrew Renascence. From Wordnik.com. [The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)] Reference
Darwin was certainly the great inaugurator of the evolutionary movement in. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
I am the opener (i.e., inaugurator) of the festivals, and the maker of the floods of water. From Wordnik.com. [Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations] Reference
In his brooding sympathy with the downtrodden he was a great inaugurator of the social movement. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant] Reference
Page 9 nearly all the troubles in the labor field, the inaugurator of political upheavals and race clashings. From Wordnik.com. [" Eagle Clippings " by Jack Thorne, Newspaper Correspondent and Story Teller, A Collection of His Writings to Various Newspapers] Reference
Voltaire's death the Shakespeare cult in France, of which he was the unwilling inaugurator, spread far and wide. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
Desmoulins, the inaugurator of the Revolution, and St. Just, its fiery and immaculate apostle, sat on its benches. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Paris] Reference
Even a Nero cannot die, but fifty years after his death is still looked for as the inaugurator of a millennium of horror. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
Revelation, but rather in His having been invested with the powers inherent in the inaugurator of a separate religious Dispensation, and in. From Wordnik.com. [The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh] Reference
The multitudinous philosophies may thus be reduced to a single quaternion, and the reputed inaugurator of a new philosophy is like to be a charlatan. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference
Cusa (d. 1404) stands out prominently as the inaugurator of a new speculative system in dogmatic theology; but his doctrine is in many respects open to criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
He has the honor of being the inaugurator of the system of progressive improvement in fire-arms, which has gone on steadily and without flagging for now fully sixty years past. From Wordnik.com. [Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made] Reference
Many memoirs of eminent persons have appeared, and many books of travel, since the days of George Forster (1754-1794), the teacher of Humboldt and the inaugurator of a new scientific and picturesque school of the literature of travel. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference
Euripides proposed Laïus father of Oedipus as the inaugurator, whereas Timæus declared that the fashion of making favourites of boys was introduced into Greece from Crete, for Malthusian reasons said Aristotle (Pol.ii. 10), attributing it to Minos. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Had there been even a much larger society, the choice would probably have been as surely the same, for it would have been difficult indeed to find anyone, who, in the grace and command of natural presence, exceeded this inaugurator of authority in Victoria. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria] Reference
Shefket Pasha, inaugurator of the “Bulgarian atrocities "defeated by Lazar Socica recalled. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist]
Petrarch), who more rightly than any other man may be called the founder of humanism and the inaugurator of the Renaissance. From Wordnik.com. [PLATONISM IN THE RENAISSANCE] Reference
As a further suggestion of its connexion with the Great Mother as the inaugurator of the year, and in virtue of her physiological (uterine) functions the moon-controlled measurer of the month, it is important to note that "Le. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Captain Halkard, the inaugurator of an. From Wordnik.com. [Run to Earth A Novel] Reference
That the Báb, the inaugurator of the Bábí. From Wordnik.com. [The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh] Reference
Prove a kind inaugurator. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917] Reference
“the inaugurator of a”: Ibid. From Wordnik.com. [Savage Peace] Reference
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