Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One skilled in simples or medicinal plants; a simpler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler.
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- noun archaic One who gathers medicinal herbs; one who
simples .
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Examples
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Instead of encouraging austerity — a sweater from C é line will set you back £ 1,220, £ 800-plus for a jacket from Stella McCartney (another minimalist this season) and around £ 250 for some legwarmers from American "luxe simplist" Michael Kors.
Chic Simple Tina Gaudoin 2010
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The reduction of the novel to its simplist form -- or at least its most readily accessible -- would allow adventurous writers to follow their creative bliss in whatever directions they wished (to the extent that they, too, are finally willing to "ignore the needs of the publishing industry") and critics to extend their horizons beyond the already known.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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In simplist terms the Republicans are a very shallow gene pool with no inflow with the dry season approaching. sms29s
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After comparing his statments to his professed ideology and comparing it to other, often contradictory ides that he has I hve come to what is probally the simplist conclusion.
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Com on people, I think it's realy strange that after Bush's eight long years of degrading us AMERICANS ...... and moping the floor with our Values, leaving our reputation a mochory at most of the worlds doorsteps, WE tend to disregard that this is the simplist year of nomination?
Obama, campaign both say he's not ready to declare victory 2008
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How can institutions that foster the ideas of social justice and academic freedom believe that the hypocricy of paying people who are working a full time job a wage which places them beneath the proverty line is not evident to the simplist student?
Faculty of the Future EliRabett 2010
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In simplist terms: You cannot ask, unreservadly, for support of a Democratic president if you didn't make an effort of being civil to a Republican one.
"Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed?" Ann Althouse 2009
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Remember Occam's razor: The simplist explanation probably is the best explanation.
Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009
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I think that is one of the simplist sweet to make.
GoLPapdi Meera 2009
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In simplist terms: You cannot ask, unreservadly, for support of a Democratic president if you didn't make an effort of being civil to a Republican one.
"Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed?" Ann Althouse 2009
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