Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Elemental
El′e·men′tal (ĕl′ē·mĕn′tal), a. 1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope.
2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. "The elemental rules of erudition." Cawthorn.