a. Obs. [f. L. vernācul-us: see -OUS.]
1. a. Low-bred, scurrilous.
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, Ded. When a Name, so ful of authority,… is … become the lowest scorne of the age: and those men … subject to the petulancy of euery vernaculous Orator, that were wont to bee the care of Kings.
b. (See quot.)
1623. Cockeram, I. Vernaculous, a yong or green wit.
c. (See quot.)
1656. Blount, Glossogr. (following Cooper), Vernaculous, that is born and brought up in our own house.
2. Of products: Indigenous, native.
1606. Birnie, Kirk-Buriall (1833), 11. Where gold is vernaculous and plentifull.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 388. Some of them are exoticall, not easily cicurable in our soyle, as the Cedar of Palestina and Lebanon: others are indeed Ve[r]naculous, but altogether, wild and Sylvestrian.
3. = VERNACULAR a. 1 and 2.
1658. Phillips, Dict., Ded. I have … rendred it … worthy of the greatest masteries of Rhetoricians and the tongues of our Vernaculous Oratours.
a. 1682. Sir T. Browne, Tracts, viii. (1683), 130. The common Language, which besides their vernaculous and Mother Tongues, may serve for commerce between them.
