vernaculous
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin vernaculus. See vernacular.
Adjective edit
vernaculous (comparative more vernaculous, superlative most vernaculous)
- (obsolete) vernacular
- c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts:
- their vernaculous and mother tongues
- (obsolete, Latinism) scoffing; scurrilous
- 1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
- subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vernaculous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)