Meanings
exord1
nounexord (plural exords)
plural exords
- rhetoricliteratureA preface or prefatory passage.
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.
1830, “Ferrario -- On Chivalry and Romance and Italian Romantic Poetry”, in Foreign Quarterly Review, volume VI, number XIII, page 387
EXORD2
nounEXORD (plural EXORDS)
plural EXORDS
- USgovernmentAn execute order: an order to implement a specified plan.
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Origin
exord · noun
- Latinexordium
- Englishexord
From Latin exordium.
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APA
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