Meaning of exord | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A preface or prefatory passage
2. An execute order: an order to implement a specified plan.
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Examples

“One peculiarity of Bello is his having first broken through the custom of religious invocations at the heads of his cantos, in place of which he substituted poetical exords, or reflections on the events of his narrative, or on circumstances connected with them.”

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