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▪ I. ‖ ˈvulgus1
[L.]
The common people; the ordinary ruck.
a1687Petty Pol. Arith. Pref. (1690) a b, The Fire at London, and Disaster at Chatham, have begotten Opinions in the Vulgus of the World to our Prejudice. a1734North Examen ii. v. §128 (1740) 394 As for the Vulgus of the Faction, we know very well what their Employ was.
▪ II. vulgus2|ˈvʌlgəs|
[Prob. an alteration of vulgars: see vulgar n. 4.]
In some public schools, a short set of Latin verses on a given subject.
1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. iii, The three fell to work with Gradus and Dictionary upon the morning's vulgus. 1870Mansfield School Life Winchester 107 We were always excused..Vulgus when the next day was a Saint's⁓day. 1887T. A. Trollope What I remember I. v. 118 This was independent of a weekly ‘verse task’ of greater length, and was called a ‘vulgus’.
attrib.1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. ii, Tom was the upholder of the traditionary method of vulgus doing. He carefully produced two large vulgus-books, and began diving into them. |