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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Vulgarlie, -y, adv. Also: wlgairlie. [ME and e.m.E. vulgarly (Chaucer).] a. With a verb of naming: Colloquially, in the vernacular, in everyday usage. b. Of speech: As a vernacular language. c. Among ordinary people, commonly.a. 1533 Boece 345b.
The princis of Fraunce (vulgarlie namyt the dowȝe peris) 1533 Boece 457b.
Schippis … war … sonkin and stikking to the ground war sandit swa that be the bankis of sand thai ar to marinaris richt dangerus becaus sum tyme thai ar hid vnder the watter at ane full sey coverit and at ane eb thai appere and vulgarlie ar namyt drownlowe, quhilk may signifie the dowkand bankis or hillis a1538 Abell 26a.
Tite … wes meik gentile and liberall … He wes wlgairlie callit the deliyt of man 1597 James VI Dæmonol. (STS) 39/10.
Spirites … called vulgarlie the Fayrie 1587-99 Hume 94/22.
Feuer … quhilk vulgarly wee call the excesse 1632 Lithgow Trav. ii 50.
The chiefest … is called Teucria, but they are vulgarly called the Iles of Diomedes 1654 Moray Synod 119.
The cheaple at Speyside vulgarlie called the Ladies Cheaple 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 223.
Ladyes of honor, noblemen's childrin, vulgarly termed the Quens Maryesb. 1632 Lithgow Trav. iii 116.
They speake vulgarly and maternally here the Hebrew tonguec. 1632 Lithgow Trav. i 19.
Whose luxurious liues are vulgarly promulgat in this … prouerbe