The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exordial
Exordial \Ex*or"di*al\ ([e^]gz*[^o]r"d[i^]*al), a. Pertaining to the exordium of a discourse: introductory.
The exordial paragraph of the second epistle.
--I.
Taylor.
Wiktionary
exordial
a. of or relating to an exordium, beginning or introduction
Usage examples of "exordial".
But the greatest underweening of this life is to undervalue that, unto which this is but Exordial or a Passage leading unto it.