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Definition of Simpler

1. n. One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist.

Definition of Simpler

1. Adjective. (comparative of simple) Less complicated or challenging. ¹

2. Noun. (archaic) One who grows or gathers simples (medicinal herbs). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Simpler

1. simple [adj] - See also: simple

Medical Definition of Simpler

1. One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist. Simpler's joy. Vervain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Simpler

Literary usage of Simpler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Aside from all schemata, and proceeding objectively, we divide the aphasic syndromes into two great groups: (1) the simpler forms, and (2) the complex forms ..."

2. An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics by George Udny Yule (1919)
"The arithmetic mean : its definition, calculation, and simpler ... The geometric mean: its definition, simpler properties, and the cases in which it is ..."

3. The Law of Electricity: A Treatise on the Rules of the Law Relating to by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1891)
"simpler View that Such Stipulations are Void.—A simpler and sounder view is that a stipulation in the message blank of a telegraphic company that it will ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"From this harmony between the Egyptian and Assyrian delineations, both in the simpler and in the more elaborate forms, a corresponding diversity of forms ..."

5. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"A SONG OF THE simpler THINGS O! sing me a song of the simpler things— Of the lives that love and laugh, I'm tired of War and the song of sweat That tells ..."

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