Vulgarly

adv. Also 6 vulgarely(e, vulgarlie. [f. VULGAR a. + -LY².]

  1.  In common or everyday speech; vernacularly, colloquially: † a. With verbs of speaking, discoursing, etc. Obs. rare.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Troylus, IV. 1513. And, vulgarly to speken of Substaunce, Or Tresour may we boþe with vs lede, Y-nowh to lyue in honour and pleasaunce.

1647.  Trapp, Comm. Matt. xi. 17. And he is the best preacher, saith Luther, that delivereth himself vulgarly, plainly, trivially.

1659.  Hammond, On Ps. i. 1. Annot. 6. The Hebrew [word] … vulgarly signifies the result of the consultation.

  b.  With verbs of naming, esp. in vulgarly called, styled, etc.

1513.  Life Henry V. (1911), 160. A greate assemblie of estates of Fraunce, vulgarlie called a Parlyament, wherein the three estates of the Realme were present.

a. 1548.  Hall, Chron., Hen. VII., 28 b. The societe of saynct George vulgarely called the order of the garter.

1585.  T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., I. i. The mount Rhodope vulgarly called the mountes of siluer.

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., II. 50. The chiefest … is called Teucria, but they are vulgarly called the Iles of Diomedes.

1653.  H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xxviii. 108. That [river] … enters into the sea in the Empire of Sornaan, vulgarly stiled Siam.

1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 331/2. For the Pitchfork (or Pikel, which we vulgarly call it) it is an Instrument much used in Husbandry for their Loading and Stacking of Hay and Corn.

a. 1718.  Penn, Life, Wks. 1726, I. 16. Being the Fourth Instant, vulgarly called Sunday.

1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, II. iv. The chandler’s shop, the known seat of all the news, or as it is vulgarly called, gossiping.

1774.  J. Hutchins, Dorset, I. 589. The parsonage house, vulgarly called the vicarage house, stood about the middle of the island.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiv. III. 406. He was what is vulgarly called a disinterested man.

1861.  M. Pattison, Ess. (1889), I. 41. This original factory and staple of the German merchants, vulgarly called ‘The Steelyard,’… still stands on the banks of the Thames.

1868.  Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869), 95. Many of the species … are here known as fire-flies, or, more vulgarly, lightning-bugs.

  2.  Among or by the people generally; commonly or ordinarily: a. As a matter of knowledge, belief, etc.

1507.  Justes Moneths May & June, 59, in Hazl., E. P. P., II. 123. Hye magesty … Knowen is in euery realme vulgarely To his honoure.

1593.  Harvey, Pierce’s Super., Wks. (Grosart), II. 275. Which I purposely auoided, as not so vulgarly familiar.

1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xvii. (1623), 885. Where the Corps is now laide is not vulgarly knowne.

1612.  Selden, Illustr. Drayton’s Poly-olb., i. 22. What I report thus … is truth, and differeth much from what vulgarly is receiued.

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., I. 19. Whose luxurious liues are vulgarly promulgat in this … prouerbe.

a. 1688.  Cudworth, Immut. Mor. (1731), 94. Though they be very different,… yet they are vulgarly mistaken for one and the same thing.

1712.  Steele, Spect., No. 462, ¶ 5. The many good-natured Condescensions of this Prince are vulgarly known.

1793.  Martyn, Lang. Bot., s.v. Bulb, It is vulgarly considered as a root, and was called so by Botanists till Linneus corrected the error.

1865.  Mozley, Mirac., ii. 41. The inductive principle is only this unreasoning impulse applied to a scientifically ascertained fact, instead of to a vulgarly ascertained fact.

  b.  As a matter of use or habit.

1617.  Moryson, Itin., III. 155. They vulgarly eate harth Cakes of Oates, but in Cities haue also wheaten-bread.

1659.  Hammond, On Ps., Annot. 2. Not from any sensual pleasure, such as men vulgarly take in Musick.

1697.  Bentley, Phal. (1699), 142. The middle Verse, as it is vulgarly read, is an instance against me.

1806.  A. Knox, Rem. (1844), I. 61. The dread of Popery and the consequent prejudice against everything vulgarly branded with that stigma.

1842.  Emerson, Ess. Over-Soul (1876), 233. Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers.

1859.  Mill, Liberty, i. 13. The tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread.

  † c.  With reference to speech: As a vernacular tongue, Obs.

1612.  Brerewood, Lang. & Relig., 8. These were the places, where the Greek tongue was natively and vulgarly spoken.

1632.  Lithgow, Trav., III. 116. They speake vulgarly and Maternally here the Hebrew tongue.

1698.  Hearne, Duct. Hist. (1714), I. 72. The Latin Tongue ceases to be vulgarly spoken in ltaly [in] 587.

  † 3.  Publicly; in the eyes of the world. Obs. rare.

1601.  B. Jonson, Poetaster, III. iii. Seeke not to eclipse my reputation thus vulgarly.

1603.  Shaks., Meas. for M., V. i. 160. First for this woman, To iustifie this worthy Noble man, So vulgarly and personally accus’d.

  4.  a. In a commonplace manner. Obs.^–1

c. 1600.  Timon, IV. ii. (1842), 63. Gelas. Doth shee loue mee? Blat. I knowe shee dothe, and that not vulgarly.

  † b.  By ordinary arithmetic. Obs. rare.

1711.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4825/4. Each Proposition being wrought Vulgarly, Decimally,… and Instrumentally.

1762.  Ramsbottom, Fractions Anat., 74. Let us now divide 20 Shillings Vulgarly, and then 6d. by 6d. Decimally, a Pound the Integer.

  5.  In a vulgar, coarse or unrefined manner.

1831.  Scott, Ct. Rob., vii. The superstition of the Egyptians—vulgarly gross in its literal meaning…—was disowned by the principles of general toleration.

1847.  L. Hunt, Men, Women, & B., II. x. 232. It is too hard, and bold, and vulgarly pretty.

1881.  H. James, Portr. Lady, xxii. He lives on his income, which I suspect of not being vulgarly large.