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Elementally

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el·e·men·tal  (l-mntl)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or being an element.
2.
a. Fundamental or essential; basic.
b. Of or relating to fundamentals; elementary.
c. Constituting an integral part; inborn.
3. Of such character as to resemble a force of nature in power or effect: elemental violence.
n.
In certain occult systems, an inhabitant of one of the four elements, especially any of the beings described by Paracelsus as intermediate in corporeality between humans and spirits.

ele·mental·ly adv.


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Deepa Mehta's politically provocative, elementally titled films - there were ``Fire'' and ``Earth'' before this one, ``Water'' - tend to rile Hindu fundamentalists back home in India.
Blok, the most elementally lyrical poet of the age was listening deeply to the music of Revolution when he addressed Ivanov in a poem dated 1912 as "you--the autocratic tsar" ("ty--tsar' samoderzhavyi"), placing himself on a dusty street crossing, watching his royal train pass by.
Many Japanese pulp mills have been making the conversion to an elementally chlorine free (ECF) process.
 
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