elementarity
English edit
Noun edit
elementarity (uncountable)
- (obsolete) elementariness (the quality of being elementary).
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- For, though Moses have left no mention of minerals,
nor made' any other description than suits unto the apparent and visible creation,
yet is there, unquestionably, a very large class of creatures in the earth,
far above the condition of elementarity.
References edit
- “elementarity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.