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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 Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Elementaries [as some Writers pretend] *
Enthuˊsiasm