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Rudiments

noun

A statement of fundamental facts or principles. Synonym: basics.

Rudiment

noun

The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural). Synonyms: ABC, ABC's, ABCs, alphabet, first principle, first rudiment.

The remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life.

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"Rudiments" Quotes from Famous Books

... outlandish and conceited name—a double first, or something of the kind. Then he thinks he has completed everything, and is too vain to learn anything afterward. The truth is, that at twenty-four no man has done more than acquire the rudiments of his education. The system is bad from beginning to end. All that competition makes false and imperfect growth. ...

— The Claverings • Anthony Trollope

... soon close in again, so that it pulsates like a heart. It is continually taking in water from the body, or the outside, and driving it out again, and thus aids in respiration and excretion. The animal has no organs in the proper sense of the word, and yet it has the rudiments of all the ...

— The Whence and the Whither of Man • John Mason Tyler

... on the parents. I might have improved my advantages far better. I might have so mastered the mere rudiments of an English education as to be able to teach little children, but I can scarcely remember a ...

— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe

... Life's mystery of woe, And in a book he sought to give the clue; The people read, and saw that it was so, And read again — then came the Man Who Knew, Saying: "Ye witless ones! this book is vile: It hath not got the rudiments of style." ...

— Rhymes of a Rolling Stone • Robert W. Service

... requires. We are also to understand that it is consistent with the original text to believe that the most complex plants and animals may have been evolved by natural processes, lasting for millions of years, out of structureless rudiments. A person who is not a Hebrew scholar can only stand aside and admire the marvellous flexibility of a language which admits of such diverse interpretations. But assuredly, in the face of such contradictions of authority upon matters respecting which he is incompetent to form ...

— American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology • Tomas Henry Huxley

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