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According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.

Elementary. [Obs.] Skelton.

The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.

Elementariness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.

Instruction in the elements or first principles. [R.]

Resembling an element.

The act of eloping; secret departure; -- said of a woman and a man, one or both, who run away from their homes for marriage or for cohabitation.

Act of bringing down; depravation; deterioration. South.

An intended parapet; a battlement.

ulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.

; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.

The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preëxisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inclosed one within another. Buffon.

An ambush. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A clasp in the arms; embrace. Dear though chaste embracements. Sir P. Sidney.

The act of breathing in; inspiration. [R.] The special and immediate suggestion, embreathement, and dictation of the Holy Ghost. W. Lee.

An Arabian military commander, independent chieftain, or ruler of a province; also, an honorary title given to the descendants of Mohammed, in the line of his daughter Fatima; among the Turks, likewise, a title of dignity, given to certain high officials.

The rank or office of an Emir.

Same as Impalement.

A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure.