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les, 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.

rand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics. Burke.

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component. Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man. Dryden.

Tending or assisting to constitute or compose; elemental; essential. An ingredient and constitutive part of every virtue. Barrow.

egarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elemental of a plan.

Containing the first principles or doctrines; elemental; rudimentary.

First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.

Analysis into primary or elemental parts. [Archaic] Bacon.

The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence. Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived murder. Shak.

id; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.

Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter. Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under Organic. -- Ultimate belief. See under Belief. -- Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward whic…