Simpler - What does it mean?
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(simple) Less complicated or challenging.
(archaic) One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs).
* 1781 , ,
* 1833 , William Hogarth,
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(en noun)Miscellanies'', Essay VII, ''On the Linnæan System , page 273:
- One of the great pleasures in botany is, to produce a rather uncommon plant to those who know it to be curious; but the English botanist will not have much satisfaction in shewing it to a simpler , who is not acquainted with it under the name given by Gerard or Ray.
Anecdotes of William Hogarth: written by himself, page 48:
- … may with no great impropriety be termed going a simpling; but with this special difference, that your field simpler' never picks up a nettle for a marsh-mallow; a mistake which your tour ' simpler is very liable to.