What does exordium mean?
Exordium means (formal) A beginning..
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/ɛɡˈzɔːdɪəm/ · noun
(formal) A beginning..
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.
This is a feeble article of faith to begin with, but it helps to push my pen through this exordium and what now follows.
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Exordium means (formal) A beginning..
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Cicero thinks, in discourses of philosophy, the exordium to be the hardest part: if it be so, I wisely lay hold on the conclusion.
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