exordium
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"Exordium," repeated the curate, for the sake of saying something.
From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre
This whole Exordium rises very happily into noble Language and Sentiment, as I think the Transition to the Fable is exquisitely beautiful and natural.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
Exordium, egz-or′di-um, n. the introductory part of a discourse or composition.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Nearly every good speech, from Demosthenes down, has consisted of the following parts in the following order: Exordium, or Introduction.
From Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School by Miller, Edwin L.
He urged his Request, by saying, that a Preface was no less essential to a Book, than an Exordium to a Sermon.
From The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol by Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de
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