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  • noun Plural form of element.
  • noun Outdoor weather, such as wind or rain.
  • noun The basic tenets of an area of knowledge.
  • noun The bread and wine of the eucharist.

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  • noun violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements)

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  • "O, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true

    This soul should fly from me and I be changed

    Into some brutish beast.

    All beasts are happy, for when they die

    Their souls are soon dissolved in elements."

    - Christopher Marlowe, 'Doctor Faustus'

    May 24, 2010