vernaculate

English

Verb

vernaculate (third-person singular simple present vernaculates, present participle vernaculating, simple past and past participle vernaculated)

1. (rare) To express in the vernacular.
   • 1950, The Chrysanthemum and Dahlia:

     Casual observers like you and I, tend to think that a sharp dividing line exists between living and nonliving things, but we are, to vernaculate, dead wrong.

   • 1970, George Lewis, Luminous Night, page 263:

     “It must pay pretty well for you guys to be doing that,” she vernaculated.