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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Elemental \El`e*men"tal\ ([e^]l`[-e]*m[e^]n"tal), a. 1. 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. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. ``The elemental rules of erudition.'' --Cawthorn. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: elemental adj 1: being or resembling a force of nature; "elemental violence"; "primitive passions" [syn: {primitive}] 2: being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter" [syn: {ultimate}] 3: relating to or being an element; "elemental sulphur" 4: relating to severe atmospheric conditions; "a race against hail or cold rains or some other elemental catastrophe"- J.K.Howard
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