释义 |
verˈnacularist [f. vernacular a. and n. + -ist.] 1. An advocate of the use of a regional mode of speech; a speaker or writer in a regional or demotic idiom.
1867[see Anglicist 1]. 1926Glasgow Herald 27 July 10 There was ample material..in the industrial struggle with which Clydeside was so familiar, which in the hands of a Vernacularist of genius could produce a play so striking as ‘Strife’. 1974Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 4 Dec. 46/2 Creosote bush, which the Spaniards called hedonillo but the American vernacularists termed ‘little stinker’. 2. R.C. Ch. An advocate of the use of the vernacular in the liturgy. Also attrib. or as adj.
1956Catholic Herald 9 Mar. 2/4 Was St. Thomas a Vernacularist? 1982Observer 25 Apr. 30/3 Mr St John-Stevas's Latin is not good.., but that is a venial sin in these vernacularist days. |