Simple

sim'pl, a. [-pler; -plest.] Single; not com- plex; not compounded; plain; unadorned; not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; unmistakable; clear intelligible artle in manner straightforward weak in intellect not wise or sagacious. (Bot.) Without subdivisions entire. — n. Something not mixed or compounded. (Med.) A medicinal plant, — so called because each vegetable is supposed to po e its particular virtue and therefore to constitute a simple remedy. [F. L. simplex, -plicis, fr. sim- L. singuli, one by one, semper, always alike, semel, once, simul, together, E. same) and plicare, to fold.] — Sim'plist, n. One skilled in simples, or medical plants.— Sim'ply, -pit, adv. In a simple manner without art without subtlety; artle ly plainly when considered in or by itself merely; solely; barely; weakly; foolishly. — Sim'- pleton, -pl-tun, n. A silly person person of weak intellect; foolish person. [F. simplet (masc), simplette (fem.), a simple person.] — Simplicity, -plis'T- -plene , n. State or quality of being simple, unmixed or uncompounded, or of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts artle ne of mind freedom from duplicity sincerity freedom from artificial ornament; plainne ; freedom from subtlety or abstrusene ; clearne ; weakne of intellect; silline . [F. simplicity, L. simp licit as.] — Sim'plify, -plY-fi, v. [-fied (-fid), -fying.] To make simple, reduce from the complex state by analysis, show an easier or shorter proce for doing or making. [F. simplifier.] — Sim'plifica'tion, n. Act of simplifying, or making simple.