Definition of First rudiment

1. Noun. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural). "He mastered only the rudiments of geometry"


Lexicographical Neighbors of First Rudiment

first period
first person
first places
first point of Aries
first port of call
first principle
first principles
first quarter
first rain
first rank symptoms
first rate
first reading
first receiver
first responder
first responders
first rudiment (current term)
first sacker
first sergeant
first sergeants
first session
first slip
first slips
first stage of labour
first step
first stomach
first strike
first string
first team
first temporal convolution
first thing

Literary usage of First rudiment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"The first rudiment of these organs was observed in the form of two solid cell-strands which run side by side in close ..."

2. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1897)
"The first rudiment of the Simple Intestinal Tube.—The Gastrula of the Amphioxus and uf Mammals.—Separation of the Germ from the Intestinal Germ Vesicle ..."

3. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1903)
"In all, we find a simple vesicle as the first rudiment of the brain, which is afterwards parted, by contractions in its circumference, into five smaller ..."

4. The Evolution of Man: A Popular Exposition of the Principal Points of Human by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1879)
"The first rudiment of the Simple Intestinal Tube.—The Gastrula of the Amphioxus and of Mammals.—Separation of the Germ from the Intestinal Germ Vesicle ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1847)
"Rathke observed the first rudiment of kidneys on the sixth day, and the ureter in the form of a slender filament on the seventh day ; while the Wolffian ..."

6. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by K[arl] Claus, F. G. Heathcote, Carl F. Claus (1884)
"The roof only of this canal corresponds to the epiblast, while the cells of its floor and its sides give rise to the first rudiment of the mesoblast. ..."

7. The Making of Personality by Bliss Carman (1908)
"The first rudiment of beauty is health, one of the first rudiments of grace is a good walk, the first rudiment of a pleasant speaking voice is the ability ..."

8. Spiritual Despotism by Isaac Taylor (1835)
"A national Church, well devised, and wisely administered, may be considered as nothing else than a reasonable expansion of the first rudiment of external ..."

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