"就職典禮； 莊嚴或正式介紹或啓動任何重要或有尊嚴的事物的行爲"，1560年代，來自法語 inauguration "安裝，祝聖"，直接來自晚期拉丁語 inaugurationem（格 inauguratio）"祝聖"，可能最初是"在良好兆頭下安裝"； 動作名詞，來自 inaugurare 的過去分詞詞幹"觀察鳥類飛行的徵兆； 在兆頭良好時祝聖或安裝"，來自 in- "在"（來自 PIE 詞根 *en "在"）+ augurare "充當占卜師，預測"（參見 augur（n.））。
INAUGURATIO was in general the ceremony by which the augurs obtained, or endeavoured to obtain, the sanction of the gods to something which had been decreed by man; in particular, however, it was the ceremony by which things or persons were consecrated to the gods .... If the signs observed by the inaugurating priest were thought favourable, the decree of men had the sanction of the gods, and the inauguratio was completed. [William Smith (ed.), "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities," 1842]
INAUGURATIO 通常是占卜師獲得或試圖獲得神的認可，對人所定的某事進行祝聖的儀式； 特別是，它是將事物或人物奉獻給神的儀式......如果祝聖祭司觀察到的徵兆被認爲是有利的，那麼人們的法令就得到了神的認可，祝聖儀式就完成了。[威廉·史密斯（編），"希臘和羅馬古代文物詞典"，1842年]
