英:[ek'sɔ:dɪəl]
美:[ek'sɔdɪrl]
英:[ek'sɔ:dɪəl]
美:[ek'sɔdɪrl]
noun
a beginning or introduction especially to a discourse or composition
Latin, from exordiri to begin, from ex- + ordiri to begin — more at order
The first known use of exordium was in 1577
1 in his exordium the author warns his readers that they should expect a radically different interpretation of the causes of the war