- the beginning of anything.
- the introductory part of an oration, treatise, etc.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/exordium)
"There was something charmingly cordial and engaging in the manner in which after saying 'Now, Handel,' as if it were the grave beginning of a portentous business exordium, he had suddenly given up that tone, stretched out his honest hand, and spoken like a schoolboy."
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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