Relating to or serving as an exordium; belonging to the opening or introduction of something.
From exordium + -al suffix for adjectives. This Latin-based adjective form allows the concept to modify nouns, as in 'exordial remarks.'
The adjective 'exordial' is so specialized that most English speakers have never encountered it, even though classical scholars still use it when discussing the structure of Roman speeches and Renaissance rhetoric.
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