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vernaculous

vernaculous adjective: vernacular (of everyday language).

Adjective

vernaculous (comparative more vernaculous, superlative most vernaculous)

  1. (obsolete) vernacular (of everyday language)
    • their vernaculous and mother tonguesc. 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
  2. (Latinism, obsolete, rare) scoffing; scurrilous (containing coarse language)
    • subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator1605 (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)

Forms of vernaculous

comparativemore vernaculous
superlativemost vernaculous

Origin of vernaculous

Latin vernaculus. See vernacular.

Questions about vernaculous

What does vernaculous mean?
Vernaculous means vernacular (of everyday language).
What part of speech is vernaculous?
Vernaculous is an adjective.

Words near vernaculous in the dictionary

  1. vernaculars
  2. vernaculate
  3. vernaculated
  4. vernaculates
  5. vernaculating
  6. vernaculous
  7. vernadigin
  8. vernadite
  9. vernadskite
  10. vernage
  11. vernages

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