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ot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.

Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope.

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.

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.

To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Transubstantiation. [Obs.]

an origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several different vowel sounds. See Guide…

A primer for teaching the alphabet and first elements of reading. [Obs.]

er after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes.

absolute; the principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; despotism. The element of absolutism and prelacy was controlling. Palfrey.

ing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more negative element or radical, either alone, or more generally with oxygen, and take their names from this negative element or radical. Those which contain no oxygen are sometimes called hydracids in distinction from the others which are cal…

Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]