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Vulgar prejudices of every kind, and particularly vulgar 
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vul- 
We can easily overpraise the vulgar hero. 
Emerson, Conduct of Life. 
I go a good deal to places of amusement. I mid no dif- 
ficulty whatever in going to such places alone. . . . But, 
at the theatre, every one talks so fast that I can scarcely 
make out what they say ; and besides, there are a great 
many vulgar expressions. 
H. James, Jr., A Bundle of Letters, ii. 
Vulgar era. See era. Vulgar fraction, in arith. See 
.fraction. Vulgar purgation. See purgation, 2. Vul- 
gar substitution. See substitution, 4. = Syn. 1 and 2. 
Ordinary, etc. See common. 4. Rustic, low-bred. 
II. . If. A vulgar person; one of the com- 
mon people : used only in the plural. 
Rude mechanicals, that rare and late 
Work in the market-place ; and those are they 
Whose bitter tongues I shun, . . . 
(For those vile vulgars are extremely proud, 
And foully-languag'd). Chapman, Odyssey, vi. 425. 
2. The vernacular tongue or common language 
of a country. 
In our olde milgare, proflte is called weale. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Uovernour, i. 1. 
Therefore, you clown, abandon which is in the vulgar 
leave the society which in the boorish is company 
of this female which in the common is woman. 
Shak., As you Like it, v. 1. 63. 
The vulgar, the common people collectively ; the un- 
educated, uncultured class. 
Therefore the vulgar did about him flocke, . . . 
Like foolish flies about an hony-crocke. 
Spenser, F. Q , V. ii. 33. 
A mere invention to keep the vulgar in obedience. 
Burke, Rev. in France. 
vulgarian (vul-ga'ri-an), a. and n. [< L. vul- 
garis, vulgar, + -an.] I. a. Vulgar. [Rare.] 
With a fat vulgarian sloven, 
Little Admiral John 
To Boulogne is gone. 
Sir J. Denham, to Sir J. Mennis. (Davies.) 
II. n. A vulgar person; especially, a rich 
person with low or vulgar ideas. 
There's Dipley, in the tallow trade . . . Curse the 
whole pack of money-grubbing vulgarians ! 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xx. 
Even the heir of a hundred sovereigns may be born a 
brute and a vulgarian. 
St. L. Stevenson, Scribner's Mag., III. 636. 
vulgarisation, vulgarise. See vulgarization, 
vulgarize. 
vulgarism (vul'gar-izm), n. [< vulgar + -ism.] 
1. Coarseness, rudeness, or grossness of man- 
ners; vulgarity; commonness. 
Degraded by the vulgarism of ordinary life. 
.';/'. Reynolds. 
process of rendering commonly known or fa- 
miliar. 
The inclusion of anthropology in the general exhibitio.. 
of liberal arts is of great value in respect of that vulgari- viiln (vnln) 
nation which is the aim of the French anthropologists. ." ;.,-.7;;; 
Vulpecula cum Ansere 
Rugby by Arnold, more for the sake of the lines which 
were learnt by heart with it than lor its own intrinsic 
value, as I've always understood), that it is a short exer 
else, in Greek or Latin verse, on a given subject, the 
minimum number of lines being fixed for each form. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, ii. 3. 
v. t. [< OF. *vulnerer. < L. rulne- 
rare, wound : see vulnerate.'] To wound : in her- 
aldry, especially said of the pelican, which is 
blazoned as vulniug herself when represented 
as tearing her breast to feed her young. Com- 
pare pelican in her piety, under pelican. 
colloquial, especially in coarse, speech. 
their most familiar letters, must be noticed and corrected. 
V. Knox, Liberal Education, 14. 
Such vulgarisms are common [as] the Greeks fell to 
their old trade of one tribe expelling another the scene 
is always at Athens, and all the pother is some little jilt- 
ing story the haughty Roman snuffed at the suppleness. 
/. If Israeli, Lit. Char. Men of Genius, p. 380. 
Vulgarisms and low words. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 275. 
s, the multitude, lit. the quality of be- 
ing common or of the multitude, < L. vulgaris, 
common, vulgar: see vulgar."] 1. The state or 
character of being vulgar ; mean condition in 
life; meanness; commonness. 
The necessities of public business, its vast extent, com- 
plexity, fulness of details, and consequent vulgarity, as 
compared with that .of the ancients. 
De Quincey, Rhetoric. 
2. Coarseness, grossness, or clownishness of 
manners or language; absence of refinement; 
also, that which is vulgar; a vulgar act or ex- 
pression: as, vulgarity of behavior; vulgarity 
of expression or language. 
Making believe be what you are not is the essence of 
vulgarity. 0. W. Holmes, Professor, vii. 
To learn his negative merits, let us begin with the 
enumeration of the ignoble vulgarities, farcical business, 
and other evils happily sifted out and thrown away as not 
comporting with the high seriousness of this grand style, 
this new gospel of comedy, of which Aristophanes is the 
evangelist. Amer. Jour. Philol., X. 274. 
3f. The commonalty ; the mob ; the vulgar. 
The meere vulgarity (like swine) are prone to cry out 
more for a little bite by the eare than for all the sordid- 
nesse of sin. 
Up. Oauden, Tears of the Church, Pref., p. 3. (Dames.) 
Athenseum, No. 3225, p. 229. 
Within the last few years competent authorities of dif- 
ferent countries have been preoccupied with the incon- 
veniences and injury that may result to public health and 
morality by the vulgarisation of hypnotic phenomena. 
Lancet, 18H9, I. 861. 
2. A making coarse or gross; the impairing 
of refinement or elegance. 
Persia has thus fairly well escaped vulgarization and VUlned (vulnd), a. 
misrepresentation at the hands of the globe-trotter, with wounded : notin ~ ~ 
his worthless "impressions." 
Westminster Sen., CXXVIII. 454. 
Also spelled vulgarisation. 
vulgarize (vul'gar-iz), v. ; pret. and pp. vulgar- 
ised, ppr. VUlffOrSfng. [< P. Vltlgariser = Sp. Pg. A Pelican with wings expanded argent, Vulned Proper. 
wdgantar = It. vulgarizzare ; as vulgar + -ize.] (luillim. Heraldry (1724), p. 224. 
I. trans. To make vulgar or common. VUlnera, n. Plural of vulnus. 
The care of Augustus Caesar, ne nomen suum obsole- Vulnerability (vul"ne-ra-bil'i-ti), n. [< vulner- 
fleret, that the majesty of his name should not be vulgar- able + -ity (see -biiiiy)'.] The state or nron- 
wed by bad poets, is more seriously needed in our days ertv o ( fcemj? vulnerable vulnerable.! 
on behalf of great poets, to protect them from trivial or "iL vi F !/ 
too parrot-like a citation. De Quincey, Style, iii. Vulnerable (vul ne-ra-bl), a. [< F. vulnerable 
His marriage to that woman has hopelessly vulgarized ~ ? 5**** = ,% vulneravel = It. vulne- 
When in the profile she [the pelican in heraldry] is usu- 
ally valuing herself. Encyc. Brit. , XI. 7(H. 
[< vuln + -ed%.~) In her. , 
wounded : noting any animal used as a bearing, 
the weapon which inflicts the wound being gen- 
erally mentioned. Frequently, however, vulned re- 
fers to the bleeding of the wound : thus, the blazon may 
him. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxv. 
The image is, therefore, out of all imaginative keeping, 
and vulgarizes the chief personage in a grand historical 
tragedy, who, if not a great, was at least a decorous actor. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 262. 
Jl.intrans. 1. To produce vulgarity. 
Nothing refines like affection. Family jarring vulgar- 
izes; family union elevates. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, vi. 
2f. To act in a vulgar manner. 
Nor ever may descend to vulgarise, 
Or be below the sphere of her abode. 
Daniel, To Lady Anne Clifford. 
Also spelled vulgarise. 
Vulgarly (vul'giir-li), adv. 1. In a vulgar 
manner; commonly; popularly; in the manner 
usual among the common people. 
The cleere gaines of those metals, the Kings part de- Vlllnerableness (vul'ne-ra-bl-nes), n. Vulner- 
fraied, to^the Aduenturers is but small, and nothing ability. 
ra-ri), a. and 
..'vulnerario, . ., 
of or pertaining to wounds, < vulnus (vulner-), 
a wound: see vulnerate.'] I. a. If. Causing 
wounds. [Rare.] 
The aspect of his eye alone does sometimes become not 
only vulnerary, but mortal. Feltham, Resolves, ii. 56. 
rabile, < LL. vulnerabilis, wounding, injurious, < 
L. vulnerare, wound, hurt: see vulnerate.] If. 
Capable of wounding; dangerous. [Rare.] 
The male children practise to ride great horses, to 
throw the vulnerable and inevitable darte. 
Ambaesy of Sir It. Sherley (1609). (Davies.) 
2. Capable of being wounded; susceptible of 
wounds or injuries, literally or figuratively. 
Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests. 
Shak., Macbeth, v. 8. 11. 
It is the middle compound character which alone is 
vulnerable: the man who, without firmness enough to 
avoid a dishonorable action, has feeling enough to be 
ashamed of it. Junius, to Sir W. Draper, March 3, 1769. 
The hat is the vulnerable part of the artificial integu- 
ment. 0. W. Holmes, Autocrat, viii. 
neere so much as vulgarly is imagined. _ /,,!/, 
Quoted in Capt. John SmMi's True Travels, II. 74. Vulnerary (vul 1 
It is vulgarly believed that this boat represents a mag- 
nificent vessel. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 262. 
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2f. By or before the people; publicly. 
To justify this worthy nobleman. 
So vulgarly and personally accused. 
Shale., M. forM., v. 1. 160. 
3.^ Coarsely; rudely; clownishly. 
I'gar-nes), n. The state or char- 
ordinary, pp. of vulgare, make common, spread 
gar. II. n. = F. vulgate = It. vulgata, < ML. vul- 
gata, sc. editio, the common edition, fern, of L. 
vulgatus, common: seel.] I. a. 1. Common; 
general; popular. 
2. Useful in healing wounds; adapted to the 
cure of external injuries: as, vulnerary plants 
or potions. 
Her aunt sought In their baggage for some vulnerary 
remedy. Scott, Quentiu Durward, xv. 
t The^dant [henna] Js further credited with the posses- 
K. 'Brit., XI. 654. 
A remedy ap- 
II. n. ; pi. vulneraries (-riz). 
plied to wounds to favor their healing. 
Like a balsamic vulnerary. 
V. Knox, Christian Philosophy, 38. 
might not itself arouse suspicion. "* ~ Vulneratct (vul'ne-rat), v. t. [< L. vulneratus, 
Amer. jour. Philol., ix. 321. pp . o f vulnerare (> It. vulnerare = Sp. Pg. vul- 
nerar = OF. 'vulnerer), wound, injure, < vulnus 
(vulner-), a wound; cf. Skt. vrana, a wound, 
"raeture; prob. from the root of vellere, perf. 
In this, the vulgate text [of "Perese " of jEschylus], the 
word i*a<af - --* --- -- 
2. [cop.] Of or pertaining to 
old Latin version of the Script 
the Vulgate, or 
ures. 
. the close of the fourth century, partly 
by translation from the original, partly by revision of 
prior Latin versions. The Vulgate gradually came into 
general use between the sixth and the ninth century. The 
Anglo-Saxon translations were made from it and Wyclif's 
English version, while other English versions from Tyn- 
dale's onward have been much influenced by it. The 
Vulgate was the first book printed (about 1456). The 
Council of Trent ordered that the "old and vulgate edi- 
tion," approved by the "usage of so many ages," should 
be the only Latin version used in " public lectures, dis- 
putations, sermons, and expositions." Authorized edi- 
tions were afterward published under Sixtus V. in 1590 
and Clement VIII. in 1592-3. The latter, or Clementine 
The religious terminology of the languages of western 
Europe has been in great part derived from or influenced 
by the Vulgate. 
2. The vulgar or popular tongue ; the vernac- 
ular. [Rare.] 
"Here 's a pretty mess," returned the pompous gentle, 
man, descending to the vulgate; "you threaten me, for- 
sooth ! " J. E. Cooke, Virginia Comedians, I. xiii. 
VUlgUS (vul'gus), n. [L. vulgus, the common 
people: see vulgar.] See the quotation. 
Now be it known unto all you boys who are at schools 
which do not rejoice in the time-honoured institution of 
the Vulgus (commonly supposed to have been established 
by William of Wykeham at Winchester, and imported to 
Rather murder me than vulnerate still your creature, 
unless you mean to medicine where you have hurt. 
Shirley, Love Tricks, iii. 5. 
VUlnerationt (vul-ne-ra'shon), n. [= F. vul- 
neration = Sp. vulneracion = Pg. vulneracSo, < 
L. vulneratio(n-), a wounding, an injury, < vul- 
nerare, wound: see vulnerate.] The act of 
wounding, or the state of being wounded. 
He speaks of the Son of God, which was to be the Son 
of Man, and by our nature liable to mtlneration. 
Bp. Pearson, On the Creed, iv. 
vulneroso, < 
Full of 
vulnific (vul-nif'ik), a. [< L. vulnificus, wound- 
making, < vulnus, a wound, + facere, make 
(see -fie).] Causing wounds ; inflicting wounds. 
Bailey, 1731. [Rare.] 
VUlnifical (vul-nif'i-kal), a. [< vulnific + -al] 
Same as vulnific. 
vulnus (vul'nus),)!.; pi. vulnera(-ne-r&). [L.] A 
wound Vitis vulnus, the wound-gall of the grape. 
See vine-gall. Vulnus sclopeticum, a gunshot-wound : 
technical in military and naval surgery. 
Vulpecula cum Ansere (vul-pek'u-la kum 
an'se-re). [L.: vulpecula, dim. of rulpes, a fox; 
