a. Obs. rare. [ad. L. vernācul-us: see VERNACULAR a.] = VERNACULAR a. 2.
1669. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. I. 71. The Syriac Tongue is now no where vernacule, save in some few towns about Libanus. Ibid., 76. Mariana Victorius makes three Dialects of the Ethiopic Tongue, the Vernacule, the Babylonic, the Sacred.
