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simplify, v.|ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ|
[ad. F. simplifier (15th c.), ad. med.L. simplificāre, f. L. simplus simple: see -fy.]
†1. trans. (See quots.) Obs. rare.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbala iv. i, That Precept of the Pythagoreans,..Simplifie your self, Reduce your self to One. 1692Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 132 This will recollect and simplify our souls and free us of that..dispersion of Thought which is so great an hindrance to us.
2. a. To make simple; to render less complex, elaborate, or involved; to reduce to a clearer or more intelligible form; to make easy.
1759Chesterfield Lett. ccclv. (1792) IV. 169 Let us simplify it and see what it [a disappointment] amounts to. c1782Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 168 It will simplify the system of our mint to alloy both metals in the same degree. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xliv. IV. 362 Their philosophic spirit had..simplified the forms of proceeding. 1803Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 57/2 The laws of commerce..are simplified and expanded. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 73 Early in this age, they began to simplify their spoken language. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. iv. 163 In a state of nature man..does not simplify and fix his motives.
absol.1878Lockyer Spectrum Anal. 166 That is a wonderful simplification, and science always simplifies.
b. intr. To become (more) simple; to admit of simplification.
1955G. Greene Quiet American iv. ii. 230 When we are young we are a jungle of complications. We simplify as we get older. 1964K. G. Lockyer Introd. Critical Path Analysis ii. 21 Thus the diagram will simplify to the following [etc.].
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