One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
Letters are the elements of written language.
A small part of the whole.
an element of the picture
A small but present amount of a quality, a hint.
an element of doubt
To compound (something) out of elements.
Dull ſublunary lovers love / (VVhoſe ſoule is ſenſe) cannot admit / Abſence, becauſe it doth remove / Thoſe things vvhich elemented it.
To constitute and be the elements of (something).
From Middle English element, from Old French element, from Latin elementum (“a first principle, element, rudiment”) (see further etymology there). The verb is from Middle English elementen, from the n...
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His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness.