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A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration. "The exordium of repentance." Jer. Taylor. "Long prefaces and

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A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration. "The exordium of repentance." Jer. Taylor. "Long prefaces and exordiums. " Addison. (more info) exordiri to begin a web, lay a warp, begin; ex out + ordiri to begin

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  • OPENNESS
    The quality or state of being open.
  • STARTLINGLY
    In a startling manner.
  • OPEN SEA
    A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
  • STARTFULNESS
    Aptness to start.
  • STARTISH
    Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse.
  • INAUGURATION
    1. The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne. 2. The formal beginning or initiation of any movement,
  • OPEN
    1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
  • OPEN-MOUTHED
    Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
  • OUTSETTLER
    One who settles at a distance, or away, from others.
  • EXORDIUM
    A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration. "The exordium of repentance." Jer. Taylor. "Long prefaces and
  • INTRODUCTORY
    Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
  • PREFACE
    The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass. Addis & Arnold. Proper preface , a portion of the communion service, preceding the prayer of consecration, appointed for certain seasons. Syn. -- Introduction; preliminary; preamble; proem;
  • BEGINNING
    1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven
  • OPENLY
    1. In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy. How grossly and openly do many of us contradict the precepts of the gospel by our ungodliness! Tillotson. 2. Without reserve or disguise; plainly; evidently. My love . . . shall show
  • COMMENCEMENT
    1. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginnig; start. The time of Henry VII . . . nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed "modern history." 2. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges
  • START
    sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. störa to cast down, to fall, Dan. styrte, and probably also to E. start a tail; the original sense being, perhaps, to show the tail, to tumble over suddenly. *166. Cf. 1. To leap; to jump. 2. To move suddenly,
  • STARTINGLY
    By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. Shak.
  • OPEN-HEARTH STEEL
    See OPEN
  • STARTLISH
    Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse.
  • OPENER
    One who, or that which, opens. "True opener of my eyes." Milton.
  • PROPENE
    See PROPYLENE
  • PROPENSE
    Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
  • REDSTART
    A small, handsome European singing bird , allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native
  • SCOLOPENDRINE
    Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.
  • TWOPENNY
    Of the value of twopence.
  • UNDERLOAD STARTER
    A motor starter provided with an underload switch.
  • PROPENSION
    The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.
  • COPENHAGEN
    A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs. 2. A children's game in which one player is inclosed by a circle of others holding a rope.
  • REOPEN
    To open again.
  • ASTARTE
    A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

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