semple

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English

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Adjective

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semple (comparative more semple, superlative most semple)

  1. simple; low-born; of mean birth.
    • 1881, The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, volume 4:
      [] he interprisit the ane new fassioun of delay, that, gif ony semple man had interprisit like, it had bene to the dangear and hasard of his lyff []

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References

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  • Ogilvie, John. The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic Lexicon, Literary, Scientific, and Technological. Blackie & Son. (1884).

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French

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Noun

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semple m (plural semples)

  1. a type of transfer used in weaving looms

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Middle English

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Adjective

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semple

  1. Alternative form of symple