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▪ I. Sim1
[abbrev. of the personal name Simon.]
† Sim subtle, a subtle or crafty person. Obs.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osorius 170 b, Whereupon Simme Suttle argueth from destruction of the consequent on this wise. 1599Hakluyt Voyages II. ii. 84 In his latter yeeres this Sim suttle buried himselfe in a fouresquare graue,..seuerely forbidding it to be opened.
▪ II. Sim2 Now Hist.
[abbrev. of Simeonite.]
A Simeonite; esp. at Cambridge, an evangelical, religious, or quiet man.
1851Bristed Five Yrs. Eng. Univ. 40 Passing for a terribly hard-reading man, and a ‘Sim’ of the straightest kind. 1860Slang Dict. 214 Sim, one of a Methodistical turn in religion; a low-churchman; originally a follower of the late Rev. Charles Simeon. 1883Times 22 Oct. 9/5 To be a Simeonite at Cambridge—the undergraduates abbreviated it into ‘Sim’,..—was to wear a badge of reproach. |