elementaladj.n.

/ɛlɪˈmɛntəl/

Etymology: < element v. + -al suffix¹.

A. adj.

1. Of or pertaining to the ‘four elements’, earth, air, fire, and water, or to any one of them.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [adjective]

elemently1398

elementative1477

elemental?1520

elementaryc1550

elementisha1586

?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Av The lower region callyd the elementall.

1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation i. iv. sig. A vi The worlde is deuided into two regions: Celestiall, and Elementall.

1665 J. Swan Speculum Mundi (ed. 3) ix. §3. 465 The full purifying both of the Elements and Heavens in their Elemental qualities.

1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 169 All subsists by Elemental strife.

1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 59 Mixing their deep note of love with the elemental music.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vi. 98 No prospect of breakfast beyond elemental liquid.

1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. ix. 256 Elemental tumults, and blustering wars of sea and sky.

†2.

a. Composed of, or produced by, the elements; material as opposed to spiritual; inorganic as opposed to vital; ‘material’ as opposed to ‘formal’; also, in the condition of raw material. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > material or not spiritual

fleshlyc1175

bodilya1340

temporalc1380

worldyc1380

claylya1400

elementaryc1440

mondiala1500

gross1509

fleshly-wise1542

elemental1574

outward1574

natural1581

terrestrene1599

elementated1605

sublunary1609

temporarya1616

subluminary1625

sublunar1625

outwardlya1642

material1843

intramundane1845

unethereal1861

naturistic1886

1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. ii, in Wks. (1851) I. 255 An external thing and elemental, but not indifferent.

1585 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 391 All Elemental Creatures.

1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 80 The Law considereth not bare and elementall bodies, but bodies apparelled.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke Ded. 2 Without the which [the spirit] the elemental and material character..profiteth not.

1610 Histrio-mastix vi. 131 This elementall bodie (thus compact) Is but a scattred Chaos of revenge.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 4 A kind of massacre whereof, the execution ends not in the slaying of an elementall life.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 121 Nor is onely an animall heate required hereto [for hatching eggs], but an elementall and artificiall warmth will suffice.

†b. (absol. (quasi-n. in plural) The bread and wine of the Eucharist considered apart from their consecration. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > [noun]

houseleOE

bread and winea1225

sacrament?c1225

sacringc1290

spicec1425

kind?1531

Eucharistc1540

element1556

species1579

elemental1656

mystery1662

symbol1671

waybread1993

1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper xxii. 268 The elementals of bread and wine.

†3. Applied to fire, in two different senses (cf. elementary adj. 3): (a) material, physical, literal, as opposed to ‘spiritual’ or figurative; also, such as exists in this lower world; (b) in its (hypothetical) pure condition, as opposed to the impure form in which it is actually known. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [adjective] > applied to a particular element

elemental1533

1533 Hylton's Scale of Perfection God is not fyre elementall [1494 elementare].

1627 Ld. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 6 Majestick thoughts, like Elemental fire, should tend still upwards.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 99. ⁋4 Vanish like elemental fire.

1755 E. Young Centaur i. 52 A fire elemental is diffused thro' all nature.

a. Pertaining to the powers or agencies of physical nature. elemental spirits, elemental gods, etc.: those which are personifications of natural phenomena, or are associated with particular departments of nature. So elemental worship, elemental religion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > associated with nature

elementary1739

elemental1820

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 150 Ye elemental Genii, who have homes From man's high mind even to the central stone Of sullen lead.

1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. v. 260 Elemental worship of the grossest kind.

1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism (1878) I. 42 To rise to intercourse with these elemental spirits of nature was the highest aim of the philosopher.

1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxviii. 554 He continued to serve his elemental fetiche, and introduced the rude black stone which represented the Sun.

1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 109 Amphitrite appears in the Odyssey only as an elemental power.

b. figurative. Comparable to the great forces of nature.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > [adjective] > able or powerful > comparable to the forces of nature

elemental1820

elementary1865

1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 42 (1822) I. 336 A bold elemental imagination.

1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 25 All great force is real and elemental. There is no manufacturing a strong will.

1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 287 With an elemental movement like the shifting of mighty winds.

1878 J. Morley Carlyle 175 The freedom and elemental grandeur of Byron.

†5. Pertaining to the sky; also, governed by celestial influences. (Cf. element n. 10) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective]

heavenisheOE

heavenlyOE

celestialc1400

celestinec1430

supernal?1504

celical1521

elemental1527

ethereal1530

celest1535

impyre1554

skyey1587

vaultedc1590

firmamental1600

empyreal1605

superior1632

firmamentary1633

ethereous1667

skied1789

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. A j Dystyllacyon is an elementall thyng.

1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H6^v They obserued..the elemental signes & tokens in the firmament.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlvii. sig. Q6 An elementall and ascentiue Soule.

6. Of the nature of an ultimate constituent, whether of material or non-material things; esp. of physical substances, simple, uncompounded.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > of the nature of an ultimate constituent

elemental1555

elementary1622

atomic1841

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 333^v Elementall substaunces.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 113 Without the elementall, true..entity.

1773 Ld. Monboddo Orig. & Progress of Lang. (1774) I. iii. v. 482 The division of elemental sounds into Vowels and Consonants.

1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 24 As clear as elemental diamond.

1851 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ii. 118 Elemental passions and affections.

1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 207 The primitive elemental operations of thought.

1866 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 4) xiii. 488 Minerals and the elemental substances.

7. That is an essential or integrant part of any unity; constituent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adjective] > of or relating to components > forming (a) component part(s)

partiala1398

integral1551

integrant1637

constitutivea1640

elemental1639

constituting1641

integrating1654

constituent1660

component1664

compounding1682

contained1696

organical1770

inbuilt1961

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xiii. 19 The four elementall nations whereof this army was compounded.

1805 Ann. Rev. 3 254 Mere seasonings in the cauldron of public opinion, not its elemental ingredients.

1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. vii. 311 The few simple but elemental fibers which make up the tissue of most human destinies.

8. Relating to the beginnings or first principles of learning; rudimentary; = elementary adj. 6. rare in modern use.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [adjective] > rudimentary

elementary1552

alphabetary1569

elemental1577

rudimental1597

rudimentary1619

one-fingered1868

beginning1923

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iii. iii. 36 Them [sc. Epistles] that haue neede of an elementall introduction.

1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H^v Euerie elementall worde of arte.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 5 Some..Method..shortest and most Elemental.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 286 Elemental training to those higher and more large regards.

1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man II. x. 328 An elemental work upon astronomy.

a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) x. 334 Elemental truths, which have been assailed by some of the heresies of the day.

B. n.

An entity or a force which is regarded by occultists as capable of producing physical manifestations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > occult principle

elemental1877

1877 H. P. Blavatsky Isis Unveiled p. xxx These elementals are the principal agents of disembodied but never visible spirits.

1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 235 So that we may not be horrified or shy aside at the sight of the strange beings and elementals that surround us.

1923 Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. Did they suppose that God Almighty would permit a Pharaoh..thousands of years after his own death..to loose what spiritualists called an Elemental?

1965 Listener 27 May 792/2 He said gently..‘there is an Elemental out there.’..I said, ‘No, there isn't.’ His reaction was..something between disappointment in me and extreme elation that I should have denied the apparition.

Derivatives

† eleˈmentalish adj. Alchemy Obsolete rare Pure, uncompounded, lying at the base of other substances.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > composed of one part

singlea1387

simplea1398

simplexa1398

uncompound1541

uncomposed1570

incompounded1603

uncombined1611

uncompounded1615

incomplexed1628

incomposed1634

uncoacted1642

incomplex1658

elementalish1671

incomposite1677

incomplicate1686

uncomplex1702

incompound1735

uncomplicated1792

1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 120 The Elementalish Gold..lies hid in many Earths.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	elemental
释义	elementaladj.n. /ɛlɪˈmɛntəl/ Etymology: < element v. + -al suffix¹. A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the ‘four elements’, earth, air, fire, and water, or to any one of them. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [adjective] elemently1398 elementative1477 elemental?1520 elementaryc1550 elementisha1586 ?1520 J. Rastell Nature .iiii. Element sig. Av The lower region callyd the elementall. 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation i. iv. sig. A vi The worlde is deuided into two regions: Celestiall, and Elementall. 1665 J. Swan Speculum Mundi (ed. 3) ix. §3. 465 The full purifying both of the Elements and Heavens in their Elemental qualities. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 169 All subsists by Elemental strife. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 59 Mixing their deep note of love with the elemental music. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vi. 98 No prospect of breakfast beyond elemental liquid. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. ix. 256 Elemental tumults, and blustering wars of sea and sky. †2. a. Composed of, or produced by, the elements; material as opposed to spiritual; inorganic as opposed to vital; ‘material’ as opposed to ‘formal’; also, in the condition of raw material. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > material or not spiritual fleshlyc1175 bodilya1340 temporalc1380 worldyc1380 claylya1400 elementaryc1440 mondiala1500 gross1509 fleshly-wise1542 elemental1574 outward1574 natural1581 terrestrene1599 elementated1605 sublunary1609 temporarya1616 subluminary1625 sublunar1625 outwardlya1642 material1843 intramundane1845 unethereal1861 naturistic1886 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. ii, in Wks. (1851) I. 255 An external thing and elemental, but not indifferent. 1585 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 391 All Elemental Creatures. 1602 W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law i. 80 The Law considereth not bare and elementall bodies, but bodies apparelled. 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke Ded. 2 Without the which [the spirit] the elemental and material character..profiteth not. 1610 Histrio-mastix vi. 131 This elementall bodie (thus compact) Is but a scattred Chaos of revenge. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 4 A kind of massacre whereof, the execution ends not in the slaying of an elementall life. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 121 Nor is onely an animall heate required hereto [for hatching eggs], but an elementall and artificiall warmth will suffice. View more context for this quotation †b. (absol. (quasi-n. in plural) The bread and wine of the Eucharist considered apart from their consecration. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > [noun] houseleOE bread and winea1225 sacrament?c1225 sacringc1290 spicec1425 kind?1531 Eucharistc1540 element1556 species1579 elemental1656 mystery1662 symbol1671 waybread1993 1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper xxii. 268 The elementals of bread and wine. †3. Applied to fire, in two different senses (cf. elementary adj. 3): (a) material, physical, literal, as opposed to ‘spiritual’ or figurative; also, such as exists in this lower world; (b) in its (hypothetical) pure condition, as opposed to the impure form in which it is actually known. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical elements > [adjective] > applied to a particular element elemental1533 1533 Hylton's Scale of Perfection God is not fyre elementall [1494 elementare]. 1627 Ld. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 6 Majestick thoughts, like Elemental fire, should tend still upwards. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 99. ⁋4 Vanish like elemental fire. 1755 E. Young Centaur i. 52 A fire elemental is diffused thro' all nature. 4. a. Pertaining to the powers or agencies of physical nature. elemental spirits, elemental gods, etc.: those which are personifications of natural phenomena, or are associated with particular departments of nature. So elemental worship, elemental religion. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [adjective] > associated with nature elementary1739 elemental1820 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 150 Ye elemental Genii, who have homes From man's high mind even to the central stone Of sullen lead. 1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. v. 260 Elemental worship of the grossest kind. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism (1878) I. 42 To rise to intercourse with these elemental spirits of nature was the highest aim of the philosopher. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxviii. 554 He continued to serve his elemental fetiche, and introduced the rude black stone which represented the Sun. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 109 Amphitrite appears in the Odyssey only as an elemental power. b. figurative. Comparable to the great forces of nature. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > [adjective] > able or powerful > comparable to the forces of nature elemental1820 elementary1865 1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 42 (1822) I. 336 A bold elemental imagination. 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 25 All great force is real and elemental. There is no manufacturing a strong will. 1873 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 287 With an elemental movement like the shifting of mighty winds. 1878 J. Morley Carlyle 175 The freedom and elemental grandeur of Byron. †5. Pertaining to the sky; also, governed by celestial influences. (Cf. element n. 10) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [adjective] heavenisheOE heavenlyOE celestialc1400 celestinec1430 supernal?1504 celical1521 elemental1527 ethereal1530 celest1535 impyre1554 skyey1587 vaultedc1590 firmamental1600 empyreal1605 superior1632 firmamentary1633 ethereous1667 skied1789 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. A j Dystyllacyon is an elementall thyng. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H6^v They obserued..the elemental signes & tokens in the firmament. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlvii. sig. Q6 An elementall and ascentiue Soule. 6. Of the nature of an ultimate constituent, whether of material or non-material things; esp. of physical substances, simple, uncompounded. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > of the nature of an ultimate constituent elemental1555 elementary1622 atomic1841 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 333^v Elementall substaunces. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 113 Without the elementall, true..entity. 1773 Ld. Monboddo Orig. & Progress of Lang. (1774) I. iii. v. 482 The division of elemental sounds into Vowels and Consonants. 1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 24 As clear as elemental diamond. 1851 G. Brimley Ess. (1858) ii. 118 Elemental passions and affections. 1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 207 The primitive elemental operations of thought. 1866 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 4) xiii. 488 Minerals and the elemental substances. 7. That is an essential or integrant part of any unity; constituent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [adjective] > of or relating to components > forming (a) component part(s) partiala1398 integral1551 integrant1637 constitutivea1640 elemental1639 constituting1641 integrating1654 constituent1660 component1664 compounding1682 contained1696 organical1770 inbuilt1961 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xiii. 19 The four elementall nations whereof this army was compounded. 1805 Ann. Rev. 3 254 Mere seasonings in the cauldron of public opinion, not its elemental ingredients. 1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. vii. 311 The few simple but elemental fibers which make up the tissue of most human destinies. 8. Relating to the beginnings or first principles of learning; rudimentary; = elementary adj. 6. rare in modern use. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [adjective] > rudimentary elementary1552 alphabetary1569 elemental1577 rudimental1597 rudimentary1619 one-fingered1868 beginning1923 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iii. iii. 36 Them [sc. Epistles] that haue neede of an elementall introduction. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. H^v Euerie elementall worde of arte. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 5 Some..Method..shortest and most Elemental. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 286 Elemental training to those higher and more large regards. View more context for this quotation 1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man II. x. 328 An elemental work upon astronomy. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) x. 334 Elemental truths, which have been assailed by some of the heresies of the day. B. n. An entity or a force which is regarded by occultists as capable of producing physical manifestations. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > occult principle elemental1877 1877 H. P. Blavatsky Isis Unveiled p. xxx These elementals are the principal agents of disembodied but never visible spirits. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 235 So that we may not be horrified or shy aside at the sight of the strange beings and elementals that surround us. 1923 Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. Did they suppose that God Almighty would permit a Pharaoh..thousands of years after his own death..to loose what spiritualists called an Elemental? 1965 Listener 27 May 792/2 He said gently..‘there is an Elemental out there.’..I said, ‘No, there isn't.’ His reaction was..something between disappointment in me and extreme elation that I should have denied the apparition. Derivatives † eleˈmentalish adj. Alchemy Obsolete rare Pure, uncompounded, lying at the base of other substances. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [adjective] > composed of one part singlea1387 simplea1398 simplexa1398 uncompound1541 uncomposed1570 incompounded1603 uncombined1611 uncompounded1615 incomplexed1628 incomposed1634 uncoacted1642 incomplex1658 elementalish1671 incomposite1677 incomplicate1686 uncomplex1702 incompound1735 uncomplicated1792 1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 120 The Elementalish Gold..lies hid in many Earths. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.?1520
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