Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vernacular.
- Of or belonging to slaves or the rabble; hence, scurrilous; insolent; scoffing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Vernacular.
- adjective A Latinism. Obs. Scoffing; scurrilous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
vernacular - adjective obsolete
scoffing ;scurrilous
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jonson is also to be reckoned; and we shall see farther on that the latter abuses these offensive hucksters as 'vernaculous orators,' because they make Montaigne the target of their sneers.
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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Again, the expression: '_of every vernaculous orator_,' points to the circumstance of the mockery being directed against a foreigner; and the same may be said of Jonson's question, addressed to supercilious politicians, as to what nation, society, or general order of State he had provoked?
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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a name so full of authority, antiquity, and all great mark, is, through their insolence, become the lowest scorn of the age; and those men subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator, that were wont to be the care of kings and happiest monarchs_. '
Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis
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