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RU'DIMENT, n. [L. rudimentum. If connected with erudio, it denotes what is taught. But the real origin is not obvious.]

1. A first principle or element; that which is to be first learnt; as the rudiments of learning or science. Articulate sounds are the rudiments of language; letters or characters are the rudiments of written language; the primary rules of any art or science are its rudiments. Hence instruction in the rudiments of any art or science, constitutes the beginning of education in that art or science.

2. The original of any thing in its first form. Thus in botany, the germen, ovary or seed-bud, is the rudiment of the fruit yet in embryo; and the seed is the rudiment of a new plant.

Rudiment, in natural history, is also an imperfect organ; one which is never fully formed. Thus the flowers in the genus Pentstemon, have four stamens and a rudiment of a fifth, (a simple filament without an anther.)

God beholds the first imperfect rudiments of virtue in the soul.

RU'DIMENT, v.t. to furnish with first principles or rules; to ground; to settle in first principles.



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RU'DIMENT, n. [L. rudimentum. If connected with erudio, it denotes what is taught. But the real origin is not obvious.]

1. A first principle or element; that which is to be first learnt; as the rudiments of learning or science. Articulate sounds are the rudiments of language; letters or characters are the rudiments of written language; the primary rules of any art or science are its rudiments. Hence instruction in the rudiments of any art or science, constitutes the beginning of education in that art or science.

2. The original of any thing in its first form. Thus in botany, the germen, ovary or seed-bud, is the rudiment of the fruit yet in embryo; and the seed is the rudiment of a new plant.

Rudiment, in natural history, is also an imperfect organ; one which is never fully formed. Thus the flowers in the genus Pentstemon, have four stamens and a rudiment of a fifth, (a simple filament without an anther.)

God beholds the first imperfect rudiments of virtue in the soul.

RU'DIMENT, v.t. to furnish with first principles or rules; to ground; to settle in first principles.


RU'DI-MENT, n. [Fr. from L. rudimentum. If connected with erudio, it denotes what is taught, and erudio may be connected with the Goth. rodyan, to speak, Sax. rædan, to read. But the real origin is not obvious. It may have formed from some word in Rd, signifying to shoot or spring.]

  1. A first principle or element; that which is to be first learnt, as the rudiments of learning or science. Articulate sounds are the rudiments of language; letters or characters are the rudiments of written language; the primary rules of any art or science are called its rudiments. Hence instruction in the rudiments of any art or science, constitutes the beginning of education in that art or science.
  2. The original of anything in its first form. Thus in botany, the germen, ovary, or seed bud, is the rudiment of the fruit yet in embryo; and the seed is the rudiment of a new plant. Martyn. Rudiment, in natural history, is also an imperfect organ; one which is never fully formed. Thus the flowers in the genus Pentstemon, have four stamens and a rudiment of a fifth, (a simple filament without an anther.) God beholds the first imperfect rudiments of virtue in the soul. Spectator.

RU'DI-MENT, v.t.

To furnish with first principles or rules; to ground; to settle in first principles. Gayton.


Ru"di*ment
  1. That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.

    but I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit
    Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes
    The monarchies of the earth.     Milton.

    the single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape. I. Taylor.

  2. To furnish with first principles or rules; to insrtuct in the rudiments.

    Gayton.
  3. Hence, an element or first principle of any art or science; a beginning of any knowledge; a first step.

    This boy is forest-born,
    And hath been tutored in the rudiments
    of many desperate studies.     Shak.

    There he shall first lay down the rudiments
    Of his great warfare.     Milton.

  4. An imperfect organ or part, or one which is never developed.
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Rudiment

RU'DIMENT, noun [Latin rudimentum. If connected with erudio, it denotes what is taught. But the real origin is not obvious.]

1. A first principle or element; that which is to be first learnt; as the rudiments of learning or science. Articulate sounds are the rudiments of language; letters or characters are the rudiments of written language; the primary rules of any art or science are its rudiments. Hence instruction in the rudiments of any art or science, constitutes the beginning of education in that art or science.

2. The original of any thing in its first form. Thus in botany, the germen, ovary or seed-bud, is the rudiment of the fruit yet in embryo; and the seed is the rudiment of a new plant.

Rudiment, in natural history, is also an imperfect organ; one which is never fully formed. Thus the flowers in the genus Pentstemon, have four stamens and a rudiment of a fifth, (a simple filament without an anther.)

God beholds the first imperfect rudiments of virtue in the soul.

RU'DIMENT, verb transitive to furnish with first principles or rules; to ground; to settle in first principles.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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