a. [f. L. exordi-um + -AL.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of, an exordium; introductory.
1682. Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor. (1716), 118. To undervalue that, unto which this is but Exordial or a Passage leading unto it.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 158, ¶ 11. If the exordial verses of Homer be compared with the rest of the poem.
1846. Sir W. Hamilton, Dissert., in Reid’s Wks., 905/1. But it would seem in general, that the exordial movement or principle, is also the central movement of a series.
