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Vernacular (?), a. [L. vernaculus born in one's house, native, fr. verna a slave born in his master's house, a native, probably akin to Skr. vas to dwell, E. was.] Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. “A vernacular disease.” Harvey.
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His skill in the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue.
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Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted.
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