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Elementaries [as some Writers pretend]
Elementaries [as some Writers pretend] a kind of perfect beings which inhabit the elements, and are only known by what they
call the philosophers and sages, and according to these people’s notion, the element
of fire must be inhabited by Salamanders, water by Nymphs and Oridians, earth by Gnomes and Gnomonides, and the air by Sylphi and Sylphides.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
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Elements