Inauguration
An inauguration is the formal process of assuming an office or position. The term is usually used in reference to a politician's assumption of the duties of Head of State or Head of Government, ie: "the President's inaguration."Political inaugurations often have lavish ceremonies, in which the politician publically takes his or her oath of office in front of a large crowd of spectators.
see also: coronation
Featly received
kinsmen who sat in the sumptuous hall,
was filled with friends; the folk of Scyldings
To Beowulf gave the bairn of Healfdene
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borne to the brave one. Beowulf took
he suffered no shame in that soldier throng.
with four such gifts, so fashioned with go/gold.html">gold,
O'er the roof of the helmet high, a ridge,
lest the relict-of-files[3] should fierce invade,
should go to grapple against his foes.
coursers eight, with carven head-gear,
with a saddle all shining and set in jewels;
when to play of swords the son of Healfdene
in the crush of combat when corpses fell.
the refuge-of-Ingwines right and power,
Manfully thus the mighty prince,
with steeds and treasures contemned by none
strive and cry about. In spite of the ruin that Grendel and
firm, and swift repairs made the interior habitable. Tapestries
[2] From its formal use in other places, this phrase, to take.
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