Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To translate into the everyday language spoken by a people.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make vernacular; vernaculate.
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Examples
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Like Romanists, in the use of the Latin service, the Mohammedans cling, with deathly tenacity, to their Arabic bible and Arabic worship, foolishly believing that to vernacularize their faith is to degrade and corrupt it.
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