vernaculous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin vernaculus. See vernacular.
Adjective
[edit]vernaculous (comparative more vernaculous, superlative most vernaculous)
- (obsolete) vernacular
- c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
- their vernaculous and mother tongues
- (obsolete, Latinism) scoffing; scurrilous
- 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)