rudimentary (rodimentari)

[= F. ru dimentaire = Sp. rudiment a rio = Pg. rudimen tar; as rudiment + -ary.] 1. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; consisting in or dealing with first principles; elementary; initial: as, rudimentary teachings; rudimentary laws.-2. Of the nature of a rudiment; elementary; undeveloped. It ["Gammer Gurton's Needle"] is a capital example of farce, just as Ralph Roister Doister is of a rather rud i mentary kind of regular comedy. Saints bury , Hist. Elizabeth an Literature, iii. The revelation of a rudimentary and imperfect science would be unworthy of God, and would require continual correction as knowledge advanced. Dawson , Nature and the Bible, p. 21. rudesbyt (rödz'bi), n . [ rude + -s- + -by , a termination, found also in idles by , sneaksby , and sures by (also sure by ) , by some taken to be a re- duced form of boy , but prob. an arbitrary add i- tion, suggested perhaps by such surnames as Catesby, Rigby , etc., which are orig. local names (see by2 ).] A rude, boisterous, or turbulent (b) Vestigial; abortive; aborted or arrested fellow. To give my hand, opposed against my heart, Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen. Shak., T. of the S., iii. 210. Rüdesheimer (rüʼdes-hi-mér), n. [