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VULGAR. 327 VULaABISM.
1597 Shaks. 2 Hen, IV, t. iii. 90 An habitation giddy and
vnsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart. 1605
isi Pt. Jeronimo 436, 1 will buze Andreas landing, Which,
once but crept Into the vulget mouthes, Is hurryed heer and
there, and sworne for troih. i6aa Feacham CompL Gent,
i. 13 Thobe [apples] of Hesperides, golden, and out of the
vulgar leach. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Efi. i. v. 17
Though a weaknesse of the Intellect, and most discoverable
in vulgar heads, yet hath it sometime fallen upon wiser
braines. 1697 Drvuen y£"«tf/i^ XM. 5 The more he_was
with vulgar hate oppressed, The more his fury boiled within
his breast. 1783 W.Thomson Watsons Philip III^w. (1793)
II. 152 A veil of pomp.. concealed from the vulgar eye the
symptoms of its decay. 1796 Bp. Watson Apol. Bible 209
You have merely busied yourself in exposing to vulgar contempt
a few unsightly shrubs. xZ\el v. Low, vulgarish sort of man, he
was.
Vulgarism (vdgariz'm), [f. Vulgar a. +
-ISM, Cf. Sp. and Pg, vulgarismo^ It. voigarismo."]
+ 1* A common or ordinary expression. Obs.—^
X644 Bulwer Chirol. 13 An ineffable latitude of significations
: whose vulgarismes, varied through such multiplicity
of senses, are of that note and consequence, that [etc.].
2. A vulgar phrase or expression ; a colloquialism
of a low or unrefined character.
X746 H. Walpole Let. to Mann 28 Mar., The Countess..
has entertained the town with an excellent vulgarism. X7s8
L. Temple Sketches (e6. 2) 43 The Sentiments, .cannot be
cxprest with too much Plainness and Simplicity; provided
all Vulgarisms are as much as possible avoided. 1798 Bnt.
Critic XL 136 It took him, is a grose vulgarism. 1822 Mrs,
Shellev in Dowden Shelley (1887)11. 381 We hear that she
leads him and his mother (to use a vulgarism) a devil of a
life. 1874 Green Short Hist. viii. (1882) 449 The slipshod
vulgarisms of the shopkeeper of to-day.
b. A popular corruption o/a. name, rar^^.
1853 Miss Yonge Cameos (1877) I. xix. 136 This romantic
story,.. celebrates the Saracen lady by the extraordinary
title of Susy Pye, perhaps a vulgarism of her original
Eastern name.
3. The quality or character of being vulgar;
vulgarity.
1749 Chesterf. Lett, to Son 27 Sept., Vulgarism in
language is the. .distinguishing characteristic of bad company,
and a bad education. 177X Sir J. Reynolds Disc.w.
(1876)345 Familiar and interesting to all Kurope without
being degraded by the vulgarism of ordinary life i" a"/
country. X788 Mrs. Hughes Henry