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ˈsimplified, ppl. a.
[f. simplify v. + -ed1.]
Made or become more simple. simplified spelling: a system of writing English with greater phonetic consistency than in conventional spelling; any of various schemes for such a spelling reform; hence simplified speller (nonce-wd.): an advocate or practitioner of simplified spelling.
a1681J. Pordage Mystic Div. (1683) 75 They are all pure simplified Spirits, not like the Angels,..but they are pure abstracted Spirits, proceeding from the supreme Unity. 1721R. Keith tr. T. à Kempis, Valley of Lilies 48 He that is simplified and innocent, and humbly obedient. 1789Morse Amer. Geogr. Pref., It furnishes a simplified account of other countries. 1879J. H. Gladstone Spelling Reform (ed. 2) p. v, Other advantages of a simplified spelling. 1899‘Mark Twain’ What is Man? (1917) 256, I have had a kindly feeling toward Simplified Spelling from the beginning of the movement three years ago. Ibid. 262, I myself am a Simplified Speller. 1907W. James Pragmatism vii. 260 Now the idea of this loose universe affects your typical rationalists in much the same way..as ‘simplified spelling’ might affect an elderly schoolmistress. 1908W. W. Skeat Presidential Address delivered at first Meeting of Simplified Spelling Society 3 The object of the Simplified Spelling Society is to consider carefully the whole subject of our modern English spelling, with a view to the initiation of..a moderate system of reforms. 1955Auden in Encounter Feb. 11 In my Eden our only source of political news is gossip: In his New Jerusalem there will be a special daily in simplified spelling for non-verbal types. 1977K. M. E. Murray Caught in Web of Words vi. 102 In 1905..he [sc. James Murray] joined the American Simplified Spelling Board. 1979Guardian 7 Aug. 3/1 September 30 has been nominated by the Simplified Spelling Society as an international day of Speling [sic] Watching.
Hence ˈsimplifiedly adv.
1683E. Hooker Mystic Div. 67 Where..uncompoundedly, abstractly and simplifiedly Hee stood. |