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▪ I. † voˈcabular, n. Obs.—1
[See vocabulary n. and -ar2.]
A vocabulary.
1530Palsgr. 10 By what meanes it shalbe knowen in the frenche vocabular whan i and u be vowels and whan they be consonantes. 1659W. Jacob in Somner Dictionarium, To list your names in this Vocabular.
▪ II. vocabular, a.|vəʊˈkæbjʊlə(r)|
[f. L. vocābulum vocable n. + -ar1.]
Of, pertaining to, or concerning words.
1608Topsell Serpents 282 Which wordes in their seuerall Languages, haue other significations, as are to be found in euery vocabular Dictionary. 1647M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. ii. ii. 75 To unscruple all vocabular doubts and difficulties, let us but look into the fourteenth Ch. of Gen. and there we shall find a King of Gods own making. 1824J. Gilchrist Etym. Interpreter 61 This is the most prolific origin of verbal multiplication or vocabular augmentation; for thus an indefinite number of nouns are produced by a few verbs and adjectives. 1848Clough Bothie ix, Leaving vocabular ghosts undisturbed in their lexicon-limbo. 1867Lytton in Ld. Lytton's Lett. (1906) I. iv. 206 Too many images and vocabular effects make the sense of the whole obscure. |