elementality (el"ementaliti)

[ By this I hope the elementality (that is, the universality) of detraction, or disparagement, is out dispute. Whitlock , Manners of Eng. People, p. 456. elementally (el-e-men'tal-i), adv . In an ele mental manner; with reference to or as regards elements. Those words taken circumscriptly, without regard to any precedent law of Moses, are as much against plain equity as those words of "Take, eat, this my body," mentally understood, are against nature and sense. Christian Religion's Appeal , xv. (Ord MS.). Legislate as much as you please, you cannot abolish the fact of the sexes. Constituently, elementally the same, Man and Woman are organized on different bases. Like the stars, they differ in their glory. 1874 It is probable that before the time of Aristotle there were elementary treatises of geometry which are now lost. Reid , Inquiry into Human Mind. Such a pedantick abuse of elementary principles as would have disgraced boys at school. Burke, Army Estimates. 3. Treating of elements; collecting, digesting, or explaining principles: as, an elementary writer.- Elementary analysis, in chem., the estimation of the amounts of the elements which together form a compound body. - Elementary angles, in crystal., angles between particular faces characteristic of particular minerals. - Elementary body. See element, 3. - Elementary particles of Zimmermann. See blood - plate. Elementary proposition, a self-evident and indemonstrable proposition. - Elementary substances. See element, 3. elephant eign, living in a foreign land, MHG. ellende, the same, also unhappy, wretched, G. elend, unhappy, wretched, = Dan. elendig, = Sw. elän dig, unhappy, wretched; Heuy-chered I zede, and elynge in herte. Piers Plowman (B), xx. 2. Poverte is this, although it seme elenge , Po e ioun that no wight wil chalenge. Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 344. principles. Cole ridge. [Rare.] elementisht (el-e-men'tish), a. [ If you mean of many natures conspiring together, as in a popular government, to establish this fair estate, as if the element ish and ethereal parts should in their townhouse set down the bounds of each one's office, then consider what follows: that there must needs have been a wisdom which made them concur. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iii. elementoid (el-e-men'toid), a . [ tum + Gr. εἶδος , form.] Like an element; having the appearance of a simple substance: as, compounds which have an elementoid nature, and perform elemental functions.