Exordium
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɛɡˈzɔːdɪəm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Exordium is a noun meaning (formal) A beginning.
Meaning
(formal) A beginning.
More Meanings
- The introduction to an essay or discourse.
Example Sentences
This is a feeble article of faith to begin with, but it helps to push my pen through this exordium and what now follows.
Cicero thinks, in discourses of philosophy, the exordium to be the hardest part: if it be so, I wisely lay hold on the conclusion.
The depreciation of her produce was next insisted upon; and I found this exordium led to the information that Messrs. Standish and Co. had been enabled, from the depressed state of the market, to lay in a large stock of Irish linen at unheard-of low prices.
Word Forms
- exordiums
- exordia
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include exord, proemium, proemion, prooemion, origin, proem.
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