单词 | simplist |
释义 | simplistn. Now historical and rare. A person skilled in the preparation and use of medicinal simples (simple n. 4a), esp. herbal simples; a herbalist.Cf. simpler n.1, simplicist n. 1, simplifier n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > alternative practitioner > [noun] > herbalist > collector or maker of herb remedies simplicist1577 simpler1591 simplifier1594 simplist1597 rhizotomist1721 root cutter1729 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 95 The matter..may be decided by the least and simplest Symplist in these our daies. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxv. iv. 214 The Grecian Simplists [Fr. Les Simplistes Grecs; L. Graeci auctores] describe this Moly with a yellow floure. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 100 It hath been mistaken by some good Simplist for Amomum. View more context for this quotation 1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 84 This Plant is taken by our Simplists to be a kind of Golden Rod. 1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. I. 39 This is a phenomenon that seems to have puzzled the simplists of antiquity not a little. 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 94 The simplists of earlier times were content [etc.]. 1982 B. C. Harris Comfrey i. 8 New England Rarities Discovered was first printed in London in 1672 by a simplist (that is, his herbal was a book of single or simple herbs) named John Josselyn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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