rudimentaladj.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke Annot. sig. ¶^v Musicke is diuided into two parts, the first may be called Elementarie or rudimental, teaching to know the quality and quantity of notes.

1647 J. Cotton Singing of Psalmes v. 23 It appeareth..that there was something typicall or rudimentall in the manner of singing some of the Psalmes.

1712 Spectator No. 304. ⁋3 Your first rudimental essays in spectatorship were made in my shop, where you often practised for hours.

1787 Bath Chron. 22 Mar. (advt.) He spares no pains to establish Youth in the rudimental parts of Science.

1825 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1850) III. iv. 56 Our science is a rudimental and not a terminating one.

1850 13th Ann. Rep. Board Educ. State of Mass. 85 We must have Common Schools for the education of all classes of children in the primary or rudimental branches of knowledge.

1917 Pop. Mech. Aug. 167/1 A few moments' study, followed by ordinary observation, will enable almost anyone to overcome his confusion and obtain a rudimental understanding of these subjects.

1987 Insight 23 Feb. 72/1 Colleges are devoting ever more resources to students who are deficient in rudimental abilities.

2002 K. Brown & V. Law Linguistics in Brit. 215 I wanted to use for Ancient Greek the rudimental structuralist principles I had learned.

1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 131 In Beans yet soft, in Pease while they adhere unto the Cod, the rudimental Leafe and Root are discoverable.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 60 If you take Nature at the rise and critically observe her in her rudimental and obscure beginning.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 296/1 He that would discern the Rudimental stroak of a Plant..may behold it [etc.].

1767 J. Burgh Crito II. iv. 163 Death, which is..the reduction of the living man, back to that rudimental or staminal existence, which he had before birth.

1789 J. Pinkerton Enq. Hist. Scotl. II. v. v. 250 Mr. King regards these edifices as the rudimental forms of Gothic castles.

1833 T. Chalmers On Power Wisdom & Goodness of God I. ii. 128 In this rudimental and incipient stage of human existence.

1847 J. Wilson Lands of Bible I. i. 24 In some of the animals..we noticed a rudimental tendency to a dewlap.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man (1890) ii. xii. 354 The throat pouch..is present in the female, though in a rudimental condition.

1933 Sci. News Let. 6 May 282/2 Examination shows that the posterior foot is bidigital, but that the phalanges are fused; while the anterior foot is perisodactyle, all the digits but the third being rudimental!

1987 P. Abbott States Perfect Freedom iii. 80 In an inversion of his own concerns, the foxes in winter remind Thoreau of rudimental, burrowing men.

2007 Clash July 40/3 Kuduro sounds like Angolan kids trying to do techno/house but, just like most of the suburbia born kind of music, Kuduro is made with rudimental tools, aggressive MCs and a lot of slang.