end, ending, finish, finishing, middle

baccalaureate

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accession, activation, attack, birth, constitution, creation, debut, entry, establishment, face-off, first appearance, first step, formation, foundation, founding, incipience, incipiency, initiative, installation, installing, installment, instauration, institution, introduction, jump ball, moving in, occupation, occupying, opening move, organisation, organization, origination, rise to power, scrum, scrummage, starting point, startup, terminus a quo, threshold, tone-beginning, unveiling

baccalaureate, conceptus, embryo, fertilized egg, ludi saeculares, present, secular games, speaker

change of state, exercise, point, point in time

commencement exercise, first, graduation, graduation exercise, kickoff, offset, outset, starting time