vulgarly, adv.
(ˈvʌlgəlɪ)
Also 6 vulgarely(e, vulgarlie.
[f. vulgar a. + -ly2.]
1. In common or everyday speech; vernacularly, colloquially: † a. With verbs of speaking, discoursing, etc. Obs. rare.
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 1513 And, vulgarly to speken of Substaunce, Of Tresour may we boþe with vs lede, Y-nowh to lyue in honour and pleasaunce. 1647 Trapp Comm. Matt. xi. 17 And he is the best preacher, saith Luther, that delivereth himself vulgarly, plainly, trivially. 1659 Hammond On Ps. i. 1 Annot. 6 The Hebrew [word]..vulgarly signifies the result of the consultation. |
b. With verbs of naming, esp. in vulgarly called, vulgarly styled, etc.
| 1513 Life Hen. V (1911) 160 A greate assemblie of estates of Fraunce, vulgarlie called a Parlyament, wherein the three estates of the Realme were present. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII, 28 b, The societe of saynct George vulgarely called the order of the garter. 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. i, The mount Rhodope vulgarly called the mountes of siluer. 1632 Lithgow Trav. ii. 50 The chiefest..is called Teucria, but they are vulgarly called the Iles of Diomedes. 1653 H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxviii. 108 That [river].. enters into the sea in the Empire of Sornaan, vulgarly stiled Siam. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 331/2 For the Pitchfork (or Pikel, which we vulgarly call it) it is an Instrument much used in Husbandry for their Loading and Stacking of Hay and Corn. a 1718 Penn Life Wks. 1726 I. 16 Being the Fourth Instant, vulgarly called Sunday. 1749 Fielding Tom Jones ii. iv, The chandler's shop, the known seat of all the news, or as it is vulgarly called, gossiping. 1774 J. Hutchins Dorset I. 589 The parsonage house, vulgarly called the vicarage house, stood about the middle of the island. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 406 He was what is vulgarly called a disinterested man. 1861 M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 41 This original factory and staple of the German merchants, vulgarly called ‘The Steelyard’,..still stands on the banks of the Thames. 1868 Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 95 Many of the species..are here known as fire-flies, or, more vulgarly, lightning-bugs. |
2. Among or by the people generally; commonly or ordinarily: a. As a matter of knowledge, belief, etc.
| 1507 Justes Moneths May & June 59 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 123 Hye magesty..Knowen is in euery realme vulgarely To his honoure. 1593 Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 275 Which I purposely auoided, as not so vulgarly familiar. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvii. (1623) 885 Where the Corps is now laide is not vulgarly knowne. 1612 Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. i. 22 What I report thus..is truth, and differeth much from what vulgarly is receiued. 1632 Lithgow Trav. i. 19 Whose luxurious liues are vulgarly promulgat in this..prouerbe. a 1688 Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 94 Though they be very different,..yet they are vulgarly mistaken for one and the same thing. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 462 ¶5 The many good-natured Condescensions of this Prince are vulgarly known. 1793 Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v. Bulb, It is vulgarly considered as a root, and was called so by Botanists till Linneus corrected the error. 1865 Mozley Mirac. ii. 41 The inductive principle is only this unreasoning impulse applied to a scientifically ascertained fact, instead of to a vulgarly ascertained fact. |
b. As a matter of use or habit.
| 1617 Moryson Itin. iii. 155 They vulgarly eate harth Cakes of Oates, but in Cities haue also wheaten-bread. 1659 Hammond On Ps. Annot. 2 Not from any sensual pleasure, such as men vulgarly take in Musick. 1697 Bentley Phal. (1699) 142 The middle Verse, as it is vulgarly read, is an instance against me. 1806 A. Knox Rem. (1844) I. 61 The dread of Popery and the consequent prejudice against everything vulgarly branded with that stigma. 1841 Emerson Ess., Over-Soul (1876) 233 Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. 1859 Mill Liberty i. 13 The tyranny of the majority was at first, and is still vulgarly, held in dread. |
† c. With reference to speech: As a vernacular tongue. Obs.
| 1612 Brerewood Lang. & Relig. 8 These were the places, where the Greek tongue was natively and vulgarly spoken. 1632 Lithgow Trav. iii. 116 They speake vulgarly and Maternally here the Hebrew tongue. 1698 Hearne Duct. Hist. (1714) I. 72 The Latin Tongue ceases to be vulgarly spoken in Italy [in] 587. |
† 3. Publicly; in the eyes of the world. Obs. rare.
| 1601 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iii, Seeke not to eclipse my reputation thus vulgarly. 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 160 First for this woman, To iustifie this worthy Noble man, So vulgarly and personally accus'd. |
† 4. a. In a commonplace manner. Obs.—1
| c 1600 Timon iv. ii. (1842) 63 Gelas. Doth shee loue mee? Blat. I knowe shee dothe, and that not vulgarly. |
† b. By ordinary arithmetic. Obs. rare.
| 1711 Lond. Gaz. No. 4825/4 Each Proposition being wrought Vulgarly, Decimally,..and Instrumentally. 1762 Ramsbottom Fractions Anat. 74 Let us now divide 20 Shillings Vulgarly, and then 6d. by 6d. Decimally, a Pound the Integer. |
5. In a vulgar, coarse, or unrefined manner.
| 1831 Scott Ct. Rob. vii, The superstition of the Egyptians—vulgarly gross in its literal meaning..— was disowned by the principles of general toleration. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. II. x. 232 It is too hard, and bold, and vulgarly pretty. 1881 H. James Portr. Lady xxii, He lives on his income, which I suspect of not being vulgarly large. |