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elemental adjective & noun. L15.
[medieval Latin elementalis, from Latin elementum: see ELEMENT noun, -AL1.]
A. adjective.
Of or pertaining to any or all of the four elements. L15.
b. Of or pertaining to the powers of nature; personifying a phenomenon or aspect of nature; fig. comparable to or suggestive of the great forces of nature. E19.
Gladstone Amphitrite appears in the Odyssey only as an elemental power. E. Bowen For all her..tentative cosmetics she was suddenly elemental and heroic.
Pertaining to the sky; governed by celestial influences. E16-E17.
Composed of or produced by the four elements; material, not formal; inorganic, not vital. Of fire: physical, actual, not spiritual or figurative; in its hypothetical pure condition rather than the impure form known by experience. M16-M18.
Of the nature of an ultimate constituent; basic, primary; Science (of a chemical element) not combined with another element; of or pertaining to the elements. M16.
E. V. Neale The primitive elemental operations of thought. J. Barzun Intent upon a few elemental goals..food, shelter, love, survival. Scientific American Graphite, the commonest form of elemental carbon. Times Literary Supplement Three laboratories analysed the elemental composition of the torc.
= ELEMENTARY 3. Now rare. L16.
That is an essential or constituent part. M17.
b. noun. A supernatural entity or force regarded by occultists as capable of producing physical manifestations. L19.
elementally adverb M17.