Exordia [noun]

From the exordium, forwards, I followed his words closely, and lost none of his arguments.

This exordium is followed by a new invitation to come to Paris with all speed to talk over everything.

She replied through the Count of Staremberg, her minister for German affairs, that such an exordium deserved no answer at all.

A single allusion to Greece, as the mistress of the world in letters and arts, found an appropriate place in the exordium.

That Lucretian Exordium he must have written in one of his happiest veins—under the sting of the poetical œstrum.

It was not copied out fair; and the conclusions, as well as the exordium, were not definitively drawn up.

With which brief professional exordium, he entered on the history of the friendly move, and truly recounted it.

Exordium, concluding with Scott's famous lines, "Breathes there a man with soul so dead," etc.

After this not very gracious exordium, we set forth on our tour.

Now, dear reader, you begin to see the drift of this long exordium, although my purpose was indeed twofold.