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/ˌɛləmˈɛntri/ /ˌɛləmˈɛntərri/ /ˌɛləmˈɛntʃri/ Listen

adjective

Elementary adj.

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

Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.

Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire. "Some luminous and fiery impressions in the elementary region."

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Etymology of 'Elementary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... was suffering from mental growing pains. She struggled with new ideas which she had swallowed whole, without any previous elementary knowledge of the subject. Her brain was hungry, her life was stagnant, and she seized upon these sociological problems which Holman Sommers had placed before her, and worried over them, and wondered where Holman Sommers had ...

— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower

... penetrated the conception—hazy, perhaps, but none the less effective—that man's vengeance would be irresistible and inescapable if once fairly aroused. This conception he had enforced upon the pack. It was enough. For, of course, even to the most elementary intelligence among the hunting, fighting kindreds of the wild, it was patent that the surest way to arouse man's vengeance would be to attack man's young. The intelligence lying behind the wide-arched ...

— Kings in Exile • Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

... philosopher; whose elementary proclamations, "The Crisis," "Rights of Man," "Common Sense," and "Age of Reason," did more for the promulgation of freedom during and after the American and French revolutions than any ...

— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce

... would condemn nearly every war in which England has ever been engaged. Was it so very presumptuous in us to think that it would be decorous in English statesmen if they spared time enough to acquire some kind of knowledge, though of the most elementary kind, in regard to this country and the questions at issue here, before they pronounced so off-hand a judgment? Or is political information expected to come Dogberry-fashion in England, like ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... results of scientific research, after noting certain statements made here touching these things, may pronounce the following judgment: "It is astounding that such statements should be possible in our time. The most elementary conceptions of natural science are distorted in such a manner as to denote positively inconceivable ignorance of even the rudiments of science. The author uses such terms, for instance, as 'heat' in a way that would lead one to infer that he had let the entire wave of modern thought ...

— An Outline of Occult Science • Rudolf Steiner

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