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vulgar(1) (iou)



vulgar adjective. LME.
[Latin vulgaris, from vulgus the common people: see -AR1.]
Employed in common or ordinary reckoning of time, distance, etc.; calculated according to common or standard practice. Now chiefly in vulgar fractu. LME.
vulgar fraction: see FRACTION 1.
b. = VULGATE adjective 1. M16-E19.
In common or general use; customary, standard; commonly current or prevalent; widely disseminated. LME.
Burke The quality of labour which in the vulgar course we..employ. R. G. Collingwood This current vulgar theory dominates the minds of classical scholars.
(Of language etc.) commonly used by the people of a country; vernacular, esp. as opp. to Latin; (of a word) used in ordinary speech; common, familiar. Formerly also, written or spoken in the usual language of a country. arch. L15.
Vulgar Latin informal Latin of classical times.
R. Barber Songs of love's bitter-sweetness..written in the vulgar tongue. T. Bewick Foreign Birds, with their Vulgar and Scientific Names.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the ordinary or common people; plebeian. M16.
Byron 'Tis easy to astonish..The vulgar mass.
b. Of a soldier etc.: of undistinguished rank. E17-L18.
Of the common or usual kind; ordinary, commonplace; not advanced or sophisticated. arch. M16.
W. K. Kelly A very vulgar policy, and one within the scope of..ordinary capacities.
Offensively coarse in manner or character; low. M17.
vulgarly adverb LME.
vulgarness noun (now rare or obsolete) vulgarity E17.