Middle English Dictionary Entry
simpliciter adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | simpliciter adv. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Without qualification or addition of other factors; wholly, completely.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)9a/b : Swiche..tokeneþ & presentith simpliciter onliche and abstractlich þe quidite & essenciam of god.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)325b/a : Þe proprete of oon is to make multitude and to ȝiue þerto beynge and to be in alle parties þerof, and conteyneþ simpliciter.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)40b/a : Apostemez of þe necke..ar called simpliciter apostemez, boicia [Sln: boccia; L Botia] glandulez, or pustulez.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)84a/a : Noȝt only I trowe it be necessarie in vlcerez bot in alle sikenez, & sympliciter [Ch.(2): Simplye] of þo of which þer is a cause efficient of it, it is to bigynne þe curacioun.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.225 : If þou sawh a mannes dede careyn..þat it is a dede man wilt þou seyn, And noght a man sympliciter i-wys.