Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
herborist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A herbalist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
herbalist .
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Examples
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The chief workman (or, as I may call him, the founder of this device) is Carolus Clusius, the noble herbarist whose industry hath wonderfully stirred them up into this good act.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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As "Feverfue," it was ordered, by the Magi of old, "to be pulled from the ground with the left hand, and the fevered patient's name must be spoken forth, and the herbarist must not look behind him."
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The chief workman (or, as I may call him, the founder of this device) is Carolus Clusius, the noble herbarist whose industry hath wonderfully stirred them up into this good act.
Of Gardens and Orchards. Chapter III. [1587, Book II., Chapter 20 1909
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