adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.]

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  1.  In conformity with the vernacular manner; in the native or mother tongue.

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1808.  Scott, Lett., 23 Feb., in Lockhart. To expound more vernacularly, I wrote you … a swinging epistle of and concerning German Romances.

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1822.  New Monthly Mag., VI. 298. He sang … very vernacularly.

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1840.  Fraser’s Mag., XXI. 23. A wonder that he, a Spaniard, could write English so vernacularly.

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1878.  Maclear, Celts, viii. (1879), 123. The family, vernacularly called ‘muintir,’ consisted of ‘brethren.’

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  2.  With or among the people of a particular country.

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1839.  Maginn, in Fraser’s Mag., XX. 263. An author so vernacularly popular as their familiar and national dramatist.

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