a. Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. “Elemental strife.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary. “The elemental rules of erudition.” Cawthorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to elements; literally; as, the words, “Take, eat; this is my body, ” elementally understood. [ 1913 Webster ]