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Rudiments

noun

A statement of fundamental facts or principles. Synonym: basics.

Rudiment

noun

The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural). Synonyms: ABC, ABC's, ABCs, alphabet, first principle, first rudiment.

The remains of a body part that was functional at an earlier stage of life.

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"Rudiments" Quotes from Famous Books

... strictness of the discipline alienated many, who contrasted the easy life which they had led before the introduction of the European system, with that which they now endured. So long as they were engaged in mastering the rudiments of drill they felt their disadvantage; but when this was acquired, each thought himself capable of taking the place of the English adventurer, and of leading the troops he had organized to victory. Already, Charlie had received ...

— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty

... though the rudiments of common sense would suggest that under existing circumstances the less decoration put on a façade the greater would be the harmony of the whole. But trifles like harmony and fitness are splendidly ignored by the architects of to-day, who, be it remarked in passing, ...

— The Ways of Men • Eliot Gregory

... not think that I already know it all. I know only the rudiments of navigation. There is a vast deal yet for me to learn. On the Snark there is a score of fascinating books on navigation waiting for me. There is the danger-angle of Lecky, there is the line of Sumner, which, when you know least of all where you are, shows ...

— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London

... Romulus and the wolf, which probably suggested it, indicates nevertheless the degradation of his childhood. He grew up in ignorance and vagabondage. Of what the world calls education he had not the first rudiments; to the day of his death he could neither read nor write. The only occupation in which we hear of his being engaged in his boyhood, ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various

... will attain in the next. The aborigines inhabit the interior parts of North Borneo, and all along the coast is found a fringe of true Malays, talking modern Malay and using the Arabic written character, whereas the aborigines possess not even the rudiments of an alphabet and, ...

— British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo • W. H. Treacher

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