ppl. a. Obs. [f. prec. + -ED.] Compounded of the four elements; = ELEMENTED; hence, material, physical; impregnated with an element. Elementated degrees: the ‘degrees’ (of ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ quality) in medicinal substances, resulting from the proportions of their ‘elements.’ Hence Elementatedness.
1605. Timme, Quersit., I. xiii. 67. Bodyes elementated, as wel of minerals as of vegetables.
c. 1650. Sir G. Wharton, Disc. Soul of World, Wks. (1683), 657. Physicians should … segregate the Medicinal vertues of things from the Body, and the Elementated Impurities thereof.
1660. trans. Paracelsus’ Archidoxis, II. 101. The Sum or Number which respects the Elementated Degrees, is … to be noted.
1662. J. Chandler, Van Helmont’s Oriat., 43. A Body above an Elementated one, and heavenly.
1675. Evelyn, Terra (1729), 26. Salt … the first and last of Elementated Bodies.
1660. trans. Paracelsus’ Archidoxis, II. 109. The External Elementatedness … corrupts and breaks the former Nature.
