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exordium

noun
/ɛɡˈzɔːdɪəm/UK/ɛɡˈzɔɹdɪəm/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exordium (“beginning, commencement”), from exōrdior (“to begin, commence”), from ex (“out of, from”) + ōrdior (“to begin”).

  1. borrowed from exordium

Definitions

  1. A beginning.

  2. The introduction to an essay or discourse.

    • Cicero thinks, in discourses of philosophy, the exordium to be the hardest part: if it be so, I wisely lay hold on the conclusion.
    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA