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Definition of Exordium

1. Noun. (rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse.

Definition of Exordium

1. 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.

Definition of Exordium

1. Noun. A beginning ¹

2. Noun. The introduction to a paper or discourse. ¹

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Definition of Exordium

1. a beginning [n -DIUMS or -DIA] : EXORDIAL [adj] - See also: beginning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exordium

Literary usage of Exordium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator by Quintilian (1892)
"Object of the proem or exordium, 5. How the good will and attention of the judge may ... Difference between the exordium and the conclusion, 28, 29. ..."

2. Forensic Oratory: A Manual for Advocates by William Callyhan Robinson (1893)
"exordium : its Preparation. It is apparent that no introduction can be properly prepared until the matter to be introduced is fully understood. ..."

3. American Literary Criticism, Selected and Ed.: With an Introductory Essay by William Morton Payne (1904)
"Yet we speak not for the sake of exordium, but because we have really something to say, and know not when or where better to say it. ..."

4. An Essay on the Composition of a Sermon by Jean Claude (1849)
"OF THE exordium. THE exordium is that part, in which the minds of the hearers are prepared, and a natural and easy way opened to the discussion. ..."

5. Ériu by Royal Irish Academy (1905)
"We will now consider the matter of the exordium. III. The exordium of the ' Annales Cambriae ' consists of five chronological paragraphs which may be ..."

6. The Principles of Eloquence, Adapted to the Pulpit and the Bar by Jean Siffrein Maury, John Neal Lake (1807)
"OF THE exordium. Tit 7" IT pleases in an epigram or a song, but it • • never ... The exordium, nevertheless, deserves to be studied with the greatest care. ..."

7. Elements of Rhetoric: Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée (1859)
"The exordium, otherwise called the Introduc* tion or Proem, is designed as it were only to open the interview between the speaker and hearer, or between the ..."

8. Homiletics: Or, The Theory of Preaching by Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet, Thomas Harvey Skinner (1854)
"We shall be able to judge of it from what we have to say concerning the nature and purpose of the exordium. Is the exordium necessary, natural Ì Or is it ..."

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