How To Use Exordium In A Sentence
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His exordium is a specimen of the very worst possible taste in composition.
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
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[1795] * Your exordium is the worst part of the translation.
Letter 138
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The exordium is a passionate address to Captains all; amongst whom, who can more properly be reckoned than Captain Andrew?
Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
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After this splenitive exordium he proceeded to express the opinion that all the hatred and complaints against the Cardinal had arisen from his opposition to the convocation of the states-general.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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He'd explained his dilemma without any exordium of confidentiality.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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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.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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Tony Blair's epideictic performance at the Labour Party conference last year won admiration even from his foes, but by and large the digital age is cool to rhetoric and, as the enthronement of the blogger suggests, prizes incoherent impulse over the Ciceronian arts of the exordium and the peroration.
First Post Says Blair to Resign on May 9th
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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
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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The exordium is ridiculously turgid: If all the members of my body were changed into tongues, and if all my limbs resounded with
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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He'd explained his dilemma without any exordium of confidentiality.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The thesis comprises exordium straight matter and epilogue.
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The Beatitudes should be seen, according to Betz, as an exordium for the entire Sermon.
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_And for the rest, since good wine needs no hush, and an inferior beverage is not likely to be bettered by arboreal adornment, the reteller of these tales prefers to piece out his exordium (however lamely) with_ "THE PRINTER'S PREFACE.
Chivalry
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What he finally said, after a long exordium, was that at the earliest opportunity a democratic congress should determine France's political future.
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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.
Time Regained
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Phutatorius, who was somewhat of a cholerick spirit, was just going to snatch the cudgels out of Didius’s hands, in order to bemaul Yorick to some purpose — and that the desperate monosyllable Z ... ds was the exordium to an oration, which, as they judged from the sample, presaged but a rough kind of handling of him; so that my uncle Toby’s good-nature felt a pang for what
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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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.
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Chrysostom, tom.iii. p. 381 — 386, which the exordium is particularly beautiful.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Beginning his exordium with high-minded praise of the intellect, he declares that the contemporary world's rightful rulers are the wise and moral.
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But even Melville might have blenched at Browning's final exordium.
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First comes an introduction, or exordium, designed to secure a favorable hearing.
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The Beatitudes should be seen, according to Betz, as an exordium for the entire Sermon.
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But now orators call exordium anything with which they begin, and consider it of advantage to make the beginning with some brilliant thought.
The Training of a Public Speaker
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In one case we know that he delivered a speech from a script; otherwise only a few important passages, chiefly the exordium and peroration, were written out in extenso beforehand.
