into English with inaugurate.

In ancient Rome, the offi cial diviners job

was to interpret signs and portents before an important undertaking,
especially a military or political course of action. Their function was not
to tell the future, but rather to discover whether or not the gods
approved of the action or offi ce before it was undertaken, which is
how inaugurate came to mean to consecrate or to install or to
invest.
This meaning, to induct into offi ce with suitable ceremonies, goes
back to the 1500s in English as both a verb and a noun:
They did inaugurate and confi rme, Apollodorus Cizicenus Captaine in
warre oftentimes, notwithstanding he was an Allien, and Outlander.
Claudius Aelian (trans. Abraham Fleming), A Registre of Hystories,
1576
Likewise it is termed an inunction, the annointing of God, whereby we
are inaugurated and destrinated to an infallible inheritance certainly
reserued in the hands of a strong keeper against that famous day of
our redemption.
John Prime, An Exposition, 1587
A litle after was leo the ffyghe made byshope, and within xl. dayes of
his inauguracion, is uery ff rend Christopher cast hym in to pryson.
John Hooper, An Answer vnto my Lord of Wynthesters Booke, 1547
Yea nothing was he permitted to do to hym self or to his children
either in his or theyr inauguration and sanctification to the
preesthode, but all was committed to the care of Moses.
John Knox, The Appellation of Iohn Knoxe, 1558
The main method of augury was the observation of the flight of birds,
known as an auspice. For example, when looking for the answer to a
question, the augurs would observe the direction of the flight of birds
as a good or bad sign. Auspice came to mean a favorable sign and
under the auspices of means with the help and support of
reflecting a favorable view of an endeavor.
Inauguration was used from the very beginning with reference to the
President of the United States. In a letter written by Alexander
Hamilton to the newly elected George Washington in May of 1789,

Hamilton reflects on the etiquette proper to be observed by the

President:
The President to accept no invitations: and to give formal
entertainments only twice or four times a year on the anniversaries of
important events in the revolution. If twice, the day of the declaration
of Independence, and that of the inauguration of the President,
which completed the organization of the Constitution, to be preferred;
if four times, the day of the treaty of alliance with France & that of the
definitive treaty with Britain to be added.
And in a news headline after the event:
Washington inaugurated President, April 30
The Massachusetts Magazine, Dec. 1790
In Hamiltons letter to Washington , he makes it clear that the president
of the new country must put equality first among considerations of the
actions and demeanor of the presidentthe inauguration would not be
a coronation. And yet, Hamilton addresses Washington as Your
Excellency in the same letter, keeping the tone high because the
occasion was auspicious .