Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A simpleton.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who is simple.
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- noun obsolete One who is
simple .
Etymologies
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Compare Old French simplicien.
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Examples
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Especially he triumphs over your modest men; and when he meets with a _simple body_, passes for a _wit_, but a _wit_ indeed makes a _simplician_ of him; so goes he persecuting others till some one or other at last (as _chollerick_ as he is _abusive) cudgel_ him for his pains; when he goes _grumbling_ away in a mighty _choler_, saying, _They understand not jest_, when indeed tis rather _he_.
Essays on Wit No. 2 Richard Flecknoe 1639
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