El`e*men"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.
© Webster 1913.