Element, AS A VERB

Verb

element (third-person singular simple present elements, present participle elementing, simple past and past participle elemented)

1. (obsolete) To compound of elements. quotations ▲
   • 1633, John Donne, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning:

those things which elemented [love]

• • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist:

elemented bodies

• • 1681, Maunyngham, Disc., page 89:

thou art elemented and organed

2. (obsolete) To constitute and be the elements of. quotations ▲
   • 1658, Izaak Walton, Life of Donne:

His very soul was elemented of nothing but sadness.

Related terms

• transelement