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(theosophy) A creature (usually a spirit) that is attuned with, or composed of, one of the classical elements: air, earth, fire and water or variations of them like ice, lightning, etc. They sometimes have unique proper names and sometimes are referred to as Air, Earth, Fire, or Water.

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Of, relating to, or being an element (as opposed to a compound).

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Basic, fundamental or elementary.

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Of the ancient supposed elements of earth, air, fire and water.

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(by extension) Of, or relating to a force or nature, especially to severe atmospheric conditions.

This elemental fire is in itself a divine rational process, the harmony of which constitutes the law of the universe.

He was an admirer of Marx's learning and analytical power, but he would never submit to the tyrannical pedantry of Marx's school and stood up for an elemental awaking of revolutionary instincts.

Moreover, the soul approaches most nearly to perfection when it is least differentiated from elemental fire; it follows that "while we live our souls are dead within us, but when we die our souls are restored to life."

Thus the ghost of the hero or medicine man of a kin or tribe may be raised to divine rank, while again - the doctrine of spirits once developed, and spirits once allotted to the great elemental forces and phenomena of nature, sky, thunder, the sea, the forests - we have the beginnings of departmental deities, such as Agni, god of fire; Poseidon, god of the sea; Zeus, god of the sky - though in recent theories Zeus appears to be regarded as primarily the god of the oak tree, a spirit of vegetation.

The general conclusion is that many of the Greek deities were originally elemental, the elements being personified in accordance with the laws of savage imaginations.

So we went back to a very elemental side of Placebo.

The proponents of transgenic phytoremediation argued that mercury emissions from the treated sites would be below the current emission levels for elemental mercury.

These documents, products themselves of civilization, try to provide legal protections for the most elemental features of civilization.

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

In many situations, you will have to determine the best elemental to achieve your goals.

The Chemistry of the Sun (1887) is an elaborate treatise on solar spectroscopy based on the hypothesis of elemental dissociation through the intensity of solar heat.

A special association is found, both in the Bible and elsewhere, between the angels and the heavenly bodies 18, and the elements or elemental forces, fire, water, &c 19.

This ignorance of the very nature of science leads to under-estimation of the elemental force which science possesses; for only thus can we explain the pertinacity with which Ultramontanism, even at the present day, strives to subject her work to its own censorship and control.

With the rise of a belief in departmental gods comes the age of polytheism; the belief in elemental spirits may still persist, but they fall into the background and receive no cult.

The more general view that polytheistic and other gods are the elemental and other spirits of the later stages of animistic creeds, is equally inapplicable to Australia, where the belief seems to be neither animistic nor even animatistic in character.

Nevertheless, holding that every dimension has a principle of its own, he rejected the derivation of the elemental solids - pyramid, octahedron, icosahedron and cube - from triangular surfaces, and in so far approximated to atomism.

Metrodorus, rivalling some recent flights of conjecture, resolved not only the gods but even heroes like Agamemnon, Hector and Achilles " into elemental combinations and physical agencies."

The names, as a rule, will be found to denote elemental phenomena.

More than many other gods they retain in their titles and attributes the character of elemental phenomena personified.

The gods were partly elemental, partly animal in character; the lists of their titles show that every human crime was freely attributed to them.

Throughout most of a core the fractional ionization depends on the fractional elemental abundances of sulfur and metals such as Na and Mg.

Dead Sea bromine is the world's largest producer of elemental bromine, and makes bromine based flame retardants.

What's more, it also has the most elemental calcium (40% of the total molecule ).

Carbon Black carbon Black Carbon black is a powdered form of elemental carbon.

This K value is determined by analyzing an organic standard of a known elemental composition.

Two class 100 clean rooms are currently being installed dedicated to sample preparation for isotope analysis and low concentration elemental analysis.

Back to Test Services EDAX ANALYSIS NPL has 3 electron microscopes available for image analysis and elemental analysis.

Jimi Goodwin and the Williams brothers make music with a huge heart, and play it with almost elemental power.

It's the symbolic representation of a myth, a graphic depiction of something utterly abstract yet elemental.

A novel approach using elemental fluorine, J Fluorine Chem, 69, 19-24.

Mick Sands ' chorus music feels elemental too, superbly sung or intoned by the cast, with lute or solo flute accompaniment.

The ultimate sport for thrill seekers, this elemental sport has stolen the watersports limelight.

Information concerning the elemental composition of a specimen can be revealed by X-ray microanalysis (see above ).

It is precisely the elemental god of Browning's Caliban, and of the primitive savage!

In this particular case, the analysis is applied to elemental dot maps produced by scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy.

A supplementation of up to a 1 mg of elemental zinc / kg body weight / day is therefore recommended.

Between modern materialism and hylozoism proper there is, however, the distinction that the ancients, however vaguely, conceived the elemental matter as being in some sense animate if not actually conscious and conative.

Yet he was too full of dramatic inspiration to remain perpetually victimized by the conscientious affectations of the amateur author; and, where dramatic situations are not only poetical but (as in the first act of Die Walkilre and the Waldweben scene in Siegfried) too elemental for strained language, Wagner is often supremely eloquent simply because he has no occasion to try to write poetry.

In the two earliest books, accordingly, he lays down and largely illustrates the first principles of being with the view of showing that the world is not governed by capricious agency, but has come into existence, continues in existence, and will ultimately pass away in accordance with the primary conditions of the elemental atoms which, along with empty space, are the only eternal and immutable substances.

Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes suppose the single element which they respectively postulate to be transformed into the various sorts of matter which they discover in the world around them, thus assuming the non-existence of that which is elemental and the existence of that which is non-elemental]; another, pursued by " restless " persons, whose " road returns upon itself," assumes that a thing " is and is not," " is the same and not the same " [an obvious reference, as Bernays points out in the Rheinisches Museum, vii.

It is precisely the elemental god of Browning 's Caliban, and of the primitive savage !

Once such lawsuit, Griswold vs. Connecticut, ruled that "Breastfeeding is the most elemental form of parental care.

Elemental formulas are also lactose-free.

Very acidic soils can be brought up with the addition of lime, whereas more alkaline soils can be acidified with sawdust, pine needles, or elemental sulfur.

To lower soil pH, adding elemental sulfur to the garden typically turns the pH more acidic.

The Clemson agriculture department offers extensive instructions on how to lower soil pH with elemental sulfur applied to the garden.

You should be able to purchase elemental sulfur at your local garden center or home and garden retail store.

You will have access to a few of the Elemental characters, so you can experiment with their abilities.

Many times, common sense will help you decide which Elemental to use through the different challenges.

Without your Elemental beasts to help you, you cannot make another attempt to get your family back.