Exordium
[ek'sɒ:diәm]
Definition
(noun.) (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse.
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Definition
(n.) A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [L. pl. Exordia; Eng. pl. Exordiums.] Introduction, opening, preamble, preface, proem, prelude, prologue.
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Definition
n. the introductory part of a discourse or composition.—adj. Exor′dial pertaining to the exordium: introductory.
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Examples
- With which brief professional exordium, he entered on the history of the friendly move, and truly recounted it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I grow impatient at the length of your exordium. Plato. The Republic.
- This exordium, and Miss Pross's two hands in quite agonised entreaty clasping his, decided Mr. Cruncher. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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