Inaugurate vs Conceive - What's the difference?
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To induct into office with a formal ceremony.
To dedicate ceremoniously; to initiate something in a formal manner.
* 2008 , The Economist,
Invested with office; inaugurated.
To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
* 1606 , , Shakespeare, II-4
* Gibbon
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
To understand (someone).
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Jonathan Swift
(senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.
* Bible, Luke i. 36
In transitive terms the difference between inaugurate and conceive
is that inaugurate is to dedicate ceremoniously; to initiate something in a formal manner while conceive is to understand (someone).As an adjective inaugurate
is invested with office; inaugurated.inaugurate
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Verb
(inaugurat)Solar energy: the power of concentration
- Acciona, a Spanish conglomerate, is due to inaugurate a new power plant a few miles from Las Vegas.
Derived terms
* inaugural * inauguration * inaugurator * inauguratoryAdjective
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Verb
(conceiv)- We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
- It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
- I conceive you.
- You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
- She hath also conceived a son in her old age.