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Elements
Elements [F. elementi, It., eleméntos, Sp. and port. elementa, L.] are
various, as follows.
Elements,
are the first principles of things, and are reckoned four; Fire, Air, Earth and
Water, the simplest bodies that can be, and into which they are at last
resolv’d.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Elementaries [as some Writers pretend] *
Enthuˊsiasm