To introduce or induct into an office with suitable ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king.

To cause to begin, esp. with formality or solemn ceremony; hence, to set in motion, action, or progress; to initiate; -- used especially of something of dignity or worth or public concern; as, to inaugurate a new era of things, new methods, etc.

To celebrate the completion of, or the first public use of; to dedicate, as a statue.

be a precursor of; "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period"

To begin with good omens.

To mark a beginning.

commence officially

Invested with office; inaugurated.