Obs. Also 6 ellement. [f. prec. sb.]

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  1.  trans. To compound of elements.

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1400.  [see ELEMENTED ppl. a.].

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1477.  Norton, Ord. Alch., v. in Ashm. (1652), 86.

        So that the third thinge elemented of them all,
Of such condition evermore be shall.

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c. 1535.  [see ELEMENTED ppl. a.].

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1582.  Batman, On Barthol., XI. xvi. 165. Foure elements … of the which all things ellemented … are made.

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a. 1631.  Donne, Poems (1650), 194.

        As of this all, though many parts decay,
The pure which elemented them shall stay.

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1647.  Farindon, Serm., iv. (1672), I. 135. Man thus created, thus elemented and composed.

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  2.  fig.

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1628.  Donne, Serm. (1640), xlviii. 487. An Atheist is … not onely elemented and composed of Heresies in the Church.

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1640.  Walton, Donne, 38. His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness. Ibid. (1670), Lives, I. 33. Absence … doth remove Those things that Elemented it [sublunary love].

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1654.  R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 32. A world elemented with Sinne and Misery.

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  3.  To instruct in the rudiments of learning; cf. ELEMENT sb. 14.

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1651.  Reliq. Wotton., 489. I thought he had been better elemented at Eton.

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1662.  [see ELEMENTED ppl. a. 2].

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