Definition of Exordia

1. exordium [n] - See also: exordium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exordia

exorcises
exorcising
exorcism
exorcisms
exorcist
exorcistic
exorcistical
exorcists
exorcizable
exorcize
exorcized
exorcizer
exorcizers
exorcizes
exorcizing
exordia (current term)
exordial
exordium
exordiums
exoreic
exorheic
exorhiza
exorhizous
exoribonuclease
exoribonucleases
exoribonucleolytic
exornation
exornations
exorphin
exorphine

Literary usage of Exordia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"Ut his exordia primis He sung the secret seeds of nature's frame: How seas, and earth, and air, and active flame, 1'ell thro' the mighty void, ..."

2. The Lives of John Selden, Esq., and Archbishop Usher: With Notices of the by John Aikin (1812)
"... regni exordia, usque ad Imperil Vespasiani initia, atque extremum Tem- pli et Reip. ... exordia ..."

3. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... exordia sumet, Nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus unquam. Quippe ita formido mortales continet omnes, Quod multa in terris fieri ..."

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