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simplist|ˈsɪmplɪst|
Also 6 symplist.
[f. simple B. 6 + -ist.]
One who studies simples or medicinal plants; a herbalist. Now rare.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. lxviii. 95 The which controuersie..may be decided by the least and simplest Symplist in these our daies. 1601Holland Pliny II. 214 The Grecian Simplists describe this Moly with a yellow floure. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vi. 100 It hath been mistaken by some good Simplist for Amomum. 1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 84 This Plant is taken by our Simplists to be a kind of Golden Rod. 1816Keith Phys. Bot. I. 39 This is a phenomenon that seems to have puzzled the simplists of antiquity not a little. 1837― Bot. Lex. 94 The simplists of earlier times were content [etc.]. |
