v. [f. VERNACULAR a. + -IZE.] trans. To render or translate into the native speech of a people; to make vernacular.
1821. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., XCIV. 384. The Stephens, or Stephenses, as their names have … been vernacularized among us. Ibid. (1830), Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry, III. 450. Godfred of Strasburg, who vernacularized Trystan & Essylda.
1866. Songs & Ball. Cumberld., 397. Prince Louis Lucien Buonaparte employed him to vernacularise the Song of Solomon.
Hence Vernacularized ppl. a.
a. 1874. in A. Somerville, Lect. Missions, xiii. 243. His sanctified and vernacularized intellect lives in the numerous Tamil works.
