elementation

Noun

elementation (uncountable)

1. Instruction in the elements or first principles.
   • For this latter certainly contained the doctrine of the eternal generation of the Logos; and, therefore, it seems likely that the present Apsosles' creed was an introductory, and, as it were, alphabetical, creed for young catechumens in their first elementation.1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Omniana
   • No, my only design is to commend the other duty to more frequent practice: a duty without whose pre-elementation sermons themselves edify very little .1846, Hamon L'Estrange, The Alliance of Divine Offices, page 141
2. The manner in which something is divided into basic elements.
   • Through a systematic elementation of design solutions a large variety of alternatives can be accomplished by manipulating the elements in different combinations.1971, Michael Kennedy, Proceedings of the Kentucky Workshop on Computer Applications to Environmental Design, page 150
   • The origin of the contradiction lies in this, that we think a process of elementation is rigidly fixed and admit that this process applies to every aggregate, in particular to E: but there is no contradiction if E cannot be elemented with this process.'2017, Ettore Carruccio, Isabel Quigly, Mathematics and Logic in History and in Contemporary Thought, page 349
3. The state or act of elementing; the combination of elements to create something.
   • The normal process of elementation is a deposit of the relatively insoluble combinations of these elements by a process of precipitation.1971, Charles Dillon, The Fluorination of Body Water, page 24
   • The elementation of matter was its complete distentio to the plenitude and filling of the entire sensible region. Thus it was impossible to believe that a vacuum could possibly have existed and because no vacuum could have existed it followed that matter and elementation must have been created...1978, Joseph M. Victor, Charles de Bovelles, 1479-1553: An Intellectual Biography, page 111
4. Coming into existence as an element; substantiation; incorporation.
   • This grand event took place (p. 259) "by the voice of his mighty energy that is, by its melodious sweetness, which was scarcely heard when lo! the dead gleamed into life, and the non-entity which had neither place nor existence flashed like lightning into elementation, and rejoiced into life; and...1881, Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, page 128
   • When such power met elementation the result was fire started for the manufacturing of the original power together with elementation.1980, Emulio-Ree Ouou, History of South Malaita, Origin of Livings, Centre and Diameter of the Universe, page 118