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单词 simplician
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simpliciann.

Forms: 1500s–1600s simplician, 1600s simplisian, 1600s simplitian.
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: simple adj., -ician suffix; Latin simplic- , simplex , -ian suffix.
Etymology: Either < simple adj. + -ician suffix, or < classical Latin simplic-, simplex simple adj. + -ian suffix (compare -ician suffix), perhaps after e.g. mathematician n., physician n.
Obsolete.
1. Apparently: a person who investigates the origins or fundamentals of something. rare.
ΚΠ
1590 E. Digby Dissuasiue ii. 111 If we be good simplicians, we will haue recourse vnto the roote, from whence the first life and naturall vertue proceedeth.
2. A simple or ignorant person; a simpleton.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton
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1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence vii. 205 Hee..obuiated a rurall person, and interrogating him concerning the transitation of the tyme,..found him a meer simplician.
1609 S. Rowlands Knave of Clubbes sig. E3 My aprehension did Ingenious-scan, That he was meerely a Simplitian.
c1616 R. C. Certaine Poems in Times' Whistle (1871) 148 Be he a foole in the esteeme of man, In worldly thinges a meer simplician.
a1673 T. Horton 100 Select Serm. (1679) xxxiv. 260 The Wicked are the only Fools and Simplicians that are in the World.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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