1. (a.) Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

2. (n.) An inaugural address.

abecedarian aboriginal address advanced after-dinner speech allocution antecedent antenatal anterior autochthonous avant-garde baccalaureate service beginning budding celebration ceremonial ceremony chalk talk chief commencement convocation creative debate declamation diatribe elemental elementary embryonic empty formality eulogy exercise exercises exhortation exordial exploratory fetal filibuster first foremost forensic forensic address formal formal speech formality formative foundational function fundamental funeral oration gestatory graduation graduation exercises harangue headmost hortatory address in embryo in its infancy in the bud inaugural address inauguration inceptive inchoate inchoative incipient incunabular induction infant infantile initial initiation initiative initiatory installation introductory invective inventive investiture jeremiad leading liturgy mummery nascent natal observance office oration original parturient pep talk performance peroration philippic pitch postnatal precedent preceding precessional precursory prefatory pregnant preliminary preludial prelusive prenatal preparatory prepared speech prepared text prevenient primal primary prime primeval primitive primogenial prior procreative proemial propaedeutic public speech reading recital recitation religious ceremony rite rite de passage rite of passage ritual rudimental rudimentary sales talk salutatory salutatory address say screed service set speech solemnity solemnization speech speechification speeching talk talkathon tirade ur valediction valedictory valedictory address