a. Obs. [f. ELEMENT + -ISH.] Of the nature of (any of) the four elements; material, physical.

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1580.  Sidney, Arcadia, III. Wks. 264. Elementish and ethereal parts.

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1585–7.  Rogers, 39 Art. (1607), 177. Scornfully terming the … water at baptism, elementish water.

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1646.  F[isher], Mod. Divinity, 222. God at first gave man an elementish body.

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