Vulgar (?), a. [L. vulgaris, from vulgus the multitude, the common people; of uncertain origin: cf. F. vulgaire. Cf. Divulge.]
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1. Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. “As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. ” Shak.
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Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise. Milton.
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It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language. Bp. Fell.
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The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class. Bancroft.
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2. Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value. “Like the vulgar sort of market men.” Shak.
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Men who have passed all their time in low and vulgar life. Addison.
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In reading an account of a battle, we follow the hero with our whole attention, but seldom reflect on the
vulgar heaps of slaughter. Rambler.
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3. Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.
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Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. Shak.
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Vulgar fraction. (Arith.) See under Fraction.
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