Exordium

[1795] ⁠ * Your exordium is the worst part of the translation. ❋ Unknown (1795)

Chrysostom, tom.iii. p. 381 — 386, which the exordium is particularly beautiful. ❋ Unknown (1206)

The exordium is ridiculously turgid: If all the members of my body were changed into tongues, and if all my limbs resounded with ❋ Unknown (1206)

Anyone who can’t figure out that this exordium is in jest and that the joke turns on the fact that Ann Coulter is not a moderate, is in severe need of remedial reading classes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But if the preliminary declarations of the article (which would formerly have been called the exordium) are so markedly disinterested, what follows is generally much less so. ❋ Unknown (2003)

At present, since the exordium ought to be the main thing of all, we too will first of all give some precepts to lead to a system of opening a case properly. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

We might recall the exordium, to which, in thought and to some extent in language, the great concluding doxology corresponds, while the two sections of the first part deal quite appropriately with the impressive words on the certainty of salvation and on God's exercise of providence and wisdom ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

But now orators call exordium anything with which they begin, and consider it of advantage to make the beginning with some brilliant thought. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)

His exordium is a specimen of the very worst possible taste in composition. ❋ Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1811)

The exordium is a passionate address to Captains all; amongst whom, who can more properly be reckoned than Captain Andrew? ❋ James Boswell (1767)

Cicero is of opinion that in treatises of philosophy the exordium is the hardest part; if this be true, I am wise in sticking to the conclusion. ❋ Michel De Montaigne (1562)

There are many very engaging things in an exordium which is framed from the opponent's pleading, and this is because it does not seem to favor of the closet, but is produced on the spot and comes from the very thing. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)

Theophrastus adds another kind of exordium, taken from the pleading of the orator who speaks first. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)

•• kind of exordium to the work thus, aJJacb on at hair ❋ Unknown (1789)

Spectacles I feel my Blood chilling, and Time, that greedy Tyrant, devouring my whole Constitution, "etc., -- an exordium which is certainly well adapted to excite our sympathy for Jonathan, even if it fail to inspire confidence in his" Prognostications, "and leave us a little in the dark as to the necessary connection between" broken spectacles "and the" chilling of the blood. " ❋ Various (N/A)

I trembled violently at this exordium, and my father continued — I confess, my son, that I have always looked forward to your marriage with your cousin as the tie of our domestic comfort, and the stay of my declining years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Readers of a certain age will recognize this as the exordium to Henry Miller's once-famous act of literary vandalism, "Tropic of Cancer." ❋ Lee Sandlin (2012)

I trembled violently at his exordium, and my father continued — I confess, my son, that I have always looked forward to your marriage with our dear Elizabeth as the tie of our domestic comfort, and the stay of my declining years. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Many lieder begin with an imitative exordium followed by lively patter. ❋ Lu (2009)