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One who collects simples, or medicinal plants; a herbalist; a simplist. Simpler's joy. (Bot.) Vervain.

Simplicity; silliness. [Obs.] Spenser.

A person of weak intellect; a silly person.

One who is simple. [Obs.] Arnway.

The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.

The act of simplifying. A. Smith.

To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making. The collection of duties is drawn to a point, and so far simplified. A. Hamilton. It is important, in scientific pursuits, to be caitious in simplifying our deductions. W. Nichols…

One skilled in simples, or medicinal plants; a simpler. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to simples, or a simplist. [R.] Wilkinson.

Simplicity. [Obs.]

See Symploce.

In a simple manner or state; considered in or by itself; without addition; along; merely; solely; barely. [They] make that now good or evil, . . . which otherwise of itself were not simply the one or the other. Hooker. Simply the thing I am Shall make me live. Shak.

See Simulacrum. [Obs.]

appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense. Beneath it nothing but a great simulacrum. Thackeray.

One who pretends to be what he is not; one who, or that which, simulates or counterfeits something; a pretender. [Obs.] Shak. Christ calleth the Pharisees hypocrites, that is to say, simulars, and painted sepulchers. Tyndale.

To assume the mere appearance of, without the reality; to assume the signs or indications of, falsely; to counterfeit; to feign. The Puritans, even in the depths of the dungeons to which she had sent them, prayed, and with no simulated fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the assassin. Macaulay.…

The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what is true.

One who simulates, or feigns. De Quincey.

Simulated, or capable of being simulated. Bp. Hall.

The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.