单词 | herbalist |
释义 | herbalistn. 1. One versed in the knowledge of herbs or plants; a collector of or writer on plants; a botanist. Now used of the early botanical writers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] > botanist herbary1548 herbarian1577 herbarist1577 herborist1578 herbalist1594 herbist1611 herbister1623 botanist1647 botanic1655 botanologer1658 phytologist1706 philo-botanist1824 1594 J. Dee 26 Aug. in Private Diary (1842) 50 Mr. Gherardt, the chirurgion and herbalist. 1631 W. Cornwallis Ess. (ed. 2) ii. lii. sig. Iiv I am no herbalist, not curious about flowers and weeds. 1672 Mede's Wks. Life 5 He was a curious Florist, an accurate Herbalist, thoroughly vers'd in the Book of Nature. 1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 233 It is the Eryngium marinum of Herbalists. 1840 E. Newman Hist. Brit. Ferns (1844) 291 We learn from the herbalists that this plant was much in vogue as a medicine. 2. A dealer in medicinal herbs or simples; one who prepares or administers herbal remedies. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > alternative practitioner > [noun] > herbalist proalizer1577 herbalist1592 herbist1611 herbister1623 signaturist1646 curandero1801 root doctor1814 curandera1821 herb-doctor1854 herb-doctressa1864 herbologist1929 sinseh1972 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. B2 I thought them to be some Herbalists or some Apothecaries. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Herbaio, a Simpler, an Herbalist. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xvii. 258 He left an old man, a herbalist, who was supposed to understand a little of medicine, to superintend Waverley. View more context for this quotation 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 197 These bunches are afterwards hung up in the herbalists' shops. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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