vernaculous

vernaculous

English

Etymology

Latin vernaculus. See vernacular.

Adjective

vernaculous (comparative more vernaculous, superlative most vernaculous)

1. (obsolete) vernacular
   • c. 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts

     their vernaculous and mother tongues

2. (obsolete, Latinism) scoffing; scurrilous
   • 1605 (first performance)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, OCLC 960101342:

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

• cavernulous