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herbalist|ˈhɜːbəlɪst|
[f. herbal n. (or its source) + -ist.]
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.
1594Dee Diary (Camden) 50 Mr Gherardt, the chirurgeon and herbalist. 1601Cornwallyes Ess. ii. lii. (1631) 331, I am no herbalist, not curious about flowers and weeds. 1672Mede's Wks. Life 5 He was a curious Florist, an accurate Herbalist, thoroughly vers'd in the Book of Nature. 1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall 233 It is the Eryngium marinum of Herbalists. 1840E. Newman 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.
1592Greene Upst. Courtier in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 218, I thought them to be some herbalistes, or some apothecaries. 1611Florio, Herbaio, a Simpler, an Herbalist. 1814Scott Wav. lxv, He left an old man, a herbalist, who was supposed to understand a little of medicine, to attend Waverley. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 197 These bunches are afterwards hung up in the herbalists' shops. |