Noun : the rudiments of grammar. ,the rudiments of a plan. From Dictionary.com.
But how little would what are commonly called the rudiments of education, add to their qualifications as laborers?. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679Philosophicall rudiments concerning government and society. From Wordnik.com. [Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library] Reference
Perhaps, beyond some kind of rudiments, they never would. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
In this school many have been taught the "rudiments," and so the average intelligence has increased. From Wordnik.com. [Our Brother in Black: His Freedom and His Future] Reference
Have you any principles, any rudiments, of science?. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
But they all seem to have been taught the rudiments of medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
From his birth up, Henry was never taught the rudiments of responsibility. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
But it is certain he possessed a fair knowledge of the rudiments of learning. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State] Reference
He was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and obtained the rudiments of education in the Asbury. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Nevertheless there are certain rudiments of cooking which are not dwelt on usually in books. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
Try to do all your work thoroughly, even if you do not get beyond the rudiments in anything. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
Honey Tone split his roll, being burdened with the rudiments of the principle of safety first. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
= -- These may be mere epidermal excrescences, or they may be the abortive rudiments of leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
I venture to say the majority of girls there had had no more than the rudiments of the three r's. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Inside, 130 students, some with IQs as low as 20, struggle with the rudiments of self-sufficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Quality Not Quantity] Reference
The children are taught the rudiments, and afterwards endeavor to improve their condition in life. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
I have classes every morning and find many of the women very quick to learn the rudiments of nursing. From Wordnik.com. ['My Beloved Poilus'] Reference
Despite its widespread poverty, India has a growing economy and the rudiments of a health-care system. From Wordnik.com. [A Deadly Passage To India] Reference
What of reassuring was there in the rudiments of an unlighted road across a desert of ugly waste lands?. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
While in hospital, too, as soon as we were able to work a little, we were given the rudiments of Braille. From Wordnik.com. [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference
Well maybe, but the rudiments of religions could be taught quite effectively by those with no dog in the fight. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Anderson: The Case for Blending Church and State] Reference
They have not been wholly composed of criminals, and they must possess at least the rudiments of a moral sense. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The teaching of the rudiments of school-learning was a fraction in the sum-total of her training and influence. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
But I did eventually go back and learn the basic rudiments and - but then that leads you to the masters, in a way. From Wordnik.com. [Not the Sound, But the Spirit of Jazz] Reference
The object of the mission was to give Somali boys and girls the rudiments of Catholic Christianity and habits of industry. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
Alfred had failed, notwithstanding Dick's teachings, to learn even the rudiments of the game, so he sought the dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The rudiments can be learned far more satisfactorily by watching a rubber, or by receiving the kindly instruction of a friend or teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
There is a deal of fun to be got out of purely intellectual processes, and childhood is not too soon for the rudiments of such fun to show. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
Now, under the huge globe of the brain, Jim and Denny saw exposed a small, soft mouth fringed by the tiny rudiments of atrophied mandibles. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing. From Wordnik.com. [The Angry Evolutionist] Reference
Kids who are on their own should know how to respond in case of fire or weather or electrical emergencies, understand the rudiments of first aid and know how to get help fast. From Wordnik.com. [They're Home Alone] Reference
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