Definitions for exordium

exordium ex·or·di·um

Spelling: [ig-zawr-dee-uh m, ik-sawr-]
IPA: /ɪgˈzɔr di əm, ɪkˈsɔr-/

Exordium is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 213 anagrams from letters in exordium (deimorux).

Definitions for exordium

noun

  1. the beginning of anything.
  2. the introductory part of an oration, treatise, etc.

Origin of exordium

1525-35; Latin exōrdium, equivalent to ex- ex-1 + ōrd(īrī) to begin + -ium -ium

Examples for exordium

Fuller looked a little scared at this exordium, but Rachel did not notice him.

It is his notion of freedom, and at once the exordium and peroration of his eloquence.

The exordium she had so carefully prepared during her walk was eluding her.

Similarly, in the case of speeches, the exordium is prior in order to the narrative.

The proprietors have combined the capital and labor hinted at in my exordium.

So far, since the exordium, its course has been strictly narrative.

By the time I had finished this exordium, Melons had disappeared, as I fully expected.

Your exordium was so singularly clear, that I did not understand you before.

Every one present laughed at the exordium (and there the matter dropped).

Every Speyside man will recognise from this exordium that I am about to treat of "Geordie."

Word Value for exordium
Scrable

18

Words with friends

20

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