单词 | simplician |
释义 | † simpliciann. 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 innocentc1386 greenhead1576 gonyc1580 ninnyhammer1592 chicken1600 loach1605 simplician1605 hichcock1607 smelt1607 foppasty1611 dovea1616 goslinga1616 funge1621 simplicity1633 gewgaw1634 squab1640 simpletonian1652 ninny-whoop1653 softhead1654 foppotee1663 greenhorn1672 sumph1682 sawney1699 sillyton1708 gaby?1746 gobbin?1746 green goose1768 nin-a-kin1787 Jacob1811 green1824 sillikin1832 greeny1834 softhorn1836 sucker1838 softie1850 dope1851 soft1854 verigreen1854 peanut1864 daftie1872 josser1886 naïf1891 yapc1894 barm-stick1924 knobhead1931 sook1933 nig-nog1953 sawn1953 pronk1959 stiffy1965 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). < n.1590 |
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