Simple

Simple obligation
(Rom. Law) an obligation which does not depend for its execution upon any event provided for by the parties, or is not to become void on the happening of any such event. - Burrill.

I am a simple woman, much too weak
To oppose your cunning.

- Shak.

He is the companion of the silliest people in their most silly pleasure; he is ready for every impertinent entertainment and diversion.

- Law.

Something not mixed or compounded.

(Med.) A medicinal plant; - so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.

What virtue is in this remedy lies in the naked simple itself as it comes over from the Indies.

- Sir W. Temple.

(Weaving) A drawloom.

(R. C. Ch.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.

v. i.

To gather simples, or medicinal plants.

As simpling on the flowery hills she [Circe] strayed.

- Garth.

Noun	1.	simple - any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties
	2.	simple - a person lacking intelligence or common sense Synonyms: simpleton
Adj.	1.	simple - having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance" Antonyms: complex - complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"
	2.	simple - easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" Synonyms: elementary, unproblematic, uncomplicated
	3.	simple - apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" Synonyms: mere, bare
	4.	simple - exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity; "childlike trust"; "dewy-eyed innocence"; "simple courtesy" Synonyms: dewy-eyed, wide-eyed, childlike
	5.	simple - lacking mental capacity and devoid of subtlety Synonyms: dim-witted, half-witted, simple-minded
	6.	simple - (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions Synonyms: unsubdivided Antonyms: compound - of leaf shapes; of leaves composed of several similar parts or lobes
	7.	simple - not elaborate in style; unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

SIMPLE. Not compounded, alone; as, simple interest, which is interest on the principal sum lent only and not interest on the interest; simple contract, &c.

1.		SIMPLE - Early system on Datatron 200 series. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
2.		SIMPLE - Simulation of Industrial Management Problems with Lots of Equations. R.K. Bennett, 1958. Predecessor to DYNAMO, for IBM 704.

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