exordium

• He rose at this time with a majesty unusual to him in an exordium, and with all that self-possession by which he was so invariably distinguished. —  Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
• To be sure I am old and you are young--a distinction not unimportant in a husband's eyes After this exordium," added the good-natured ambassador, with a laugh, "an exordium which I have delivered in the official style of a secretary of state, let us see where we are. —  Switzerland
• Particularly noteworthy in this memorial ode are the tribute to Abraham Lincoln, the third strophe, beginning, "Many loved Truth:" the exordium--"O Beautiful! —  Brief History of English and American Literature
• The exordium is a passionate address to Captains all; amongst whom, who can more properly be reckoned than Captain Andrew I remain your sincere friend JAMES BOSWELL LETTER XIX Morpeth, Feb. —  Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
• And this exordium is but too well borne out by the unsatisfactory nature of the accounts which we read, not only in Plutarch himself, but in those other authors, out of whom we are obliged to make up our idea of the memorable Lycurgian system." —  Apologia pro Vita Sua

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