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rudiment Noun 1. rudiments a. the simplest and most basic stages of a subject: the rudiments of painting b. a partially developed version of something: the rudiments of a democratic society 2. Biol an organ or part that is incompletely developed or no longer functions [Latin rudimentum] rudimentary adj
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rudiment noun (often plural) basics, elements, essentials, fundamentals, beginnings, foundation, nuts and bolts, first principles Translations |
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Whatever may be the carved and embroidered envelope of a cathedral, one always finds beneath it--in the state of a germ, and of a rudiment at the least--the Roman basilica. This is the case with the male Ibla, and in a truly extraordinary manner with the Proteolepas: for the carapace in all other cirripedes consists of the three highly-important anterior segments of the head enormously developed, and furnished with great nerves and muscles; but in the parasitic and protected Proteolepas, the whole anterior part of the head is reduced to the merest rudiment attached to the bases of the prehensile antennae. "Pray tell me anything new that has happened to a man anywhere on this globe" -- and he reads it over his coffee and rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself. |
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