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VULGATE.
c. The usual or received text or version of the
Bible or of some portion of this.
jSijs F. Nolan (title). An Enquiry into the Integrity of
the Greek Vulgate, or Received Text of the New Testament.
1^6$ Swrt/t's Concise Diet. Bible 992 But both the
Greek and tlie J,aiin Vulgates have been long neglected.
1883 Aihcn.Tinit 22 Dec. 809/2 This pre- Lutheran Bible
ver.sion has been fmingly termed by Geffcken the ' German
Vulgate'. 1887 Encyd. Brit, XXII. S24/1 The so-called
Pe^hi(ta,..lhe Syriac vulgate.
d. An edition of the Vulgate.
1865 Smith's Concise Vict. Bible 904 The splendid pages
of the Mazarin Vulgate.
entine Vulgates,
Ibid. 995 The Sixtine and Clem-
2. The ordinary reading in a text ; the ordinary
text of a work or author.
i85i Palev ^Eichylus (ed. 2> Supplices 61 note^ This is ingenious;
but he fails to show that the vulgate is wrong.
1886 Leaf ///Vi(/ I. Introd. p. xiv, The conclusion is.. that
the edition of Antimachos was in the main the same as our
present vulgate.
3. Common or colloquial speech.
1855 J. E. Cooke Virgitiia Comedians I. xiii. (Cent.),
' Here's a pretty meis *, returned the pompous geiitlemaTi,
descending to the vulgate; 'you threaten me, forsooth 1*
1883 D. H. Whreler ByAVays Lit.'xx. 176 There is alwaj s
' ' a iree and easy vulgate for the street, the market, and the
fireside.
t Vulgate, ppl- «. Obs. Also 6 Sc, wlgat.
[ad. L. vulgat-us. pa. pple. of vulgare to make
public or common, f. vnlgits the common people.]
1. (See qnot. 1656.)
1513 Douglas ^neid i. vii. 69 The famous battellis,
wigai throw the waild or this. 1530 Palsgk. 770/1 This
ihyng is vulgate nowc howe so ever it happencth. 1656
IJuouNT Glossogr., Vulgate, published abroad, commonly
tsed, set out to the use of all men.
2. Rendered common ; vulj^arized.
1863 LvTTOS Caxtoniana I. 127 What delicate elegance
he can extract from words the most colloquial and vulgate.
Vu'lgate, ^. rare. [f. L, vulgat-y ppl. stem of
vulgare ; see prec] trans. To put into general
circulation. Hence Vulgated ppl. a.
X851 Sir F. Palgrave .\'orm. 4- f.ng. II. 509 Amongst
the untruths. .few are more detrimental to truth than the
epithets vulgated upon Sovereigns. 1857 Ibid. III. 90
Amongst the vulgated traditional anecdotes floating about
the world.
Vulgerality. nonce-wd. = Vulgarity 3.
1684 J, Lacv Sir H. Bnjffoon iii. i, Orer, My lord I No,
the word lord is too common ; it tastes of vulgerality. Aim.
God's so, there's a fine word ! Vulgerality is your own coining,
sir ? Over. Stamped in my own mint, sir.
Vulgivagant : see Volgivagant.
Cv»ig^), adv* [L. vulgd adv., abl. of
II VnlgO
valgus the common people.] Commonly, popularly.
Also Comb.
a 16*3 Buck ^/cA ///, i. (1646I 8 The Signiory of Penlith,
vulg6, Perith in Cumberland. 1644 Sv.monds Diary
(Camden) 74 Pelynt. vitlgo Plynt Church, com. Corniib.
1731 P. MiLLEK Gard. Dict.^ .Sitiqua, edulis,C. B. P. The
Carob-Tree, or St. JohnVl'read, vulgd, [1753 Land. Mag.
Sept. 3^/2 Hang a small bugle cap on, as big as a crown,
.Snout It off with a flow'r, vulgo diet, a pompoon.) 1871
Xorth Ox/ordsh. Arihxol. Soc, Notes Excurs. to Duckington,
etc , 28 It is called Velford, but that is vulgo, it
being Eleford, in correct orthography.
^ [L.] The common people; the
li Valgus
ordinary ruck.
^2687 Vzjts Pol. Arith. Pref. (1690) a b, The Fire at
London, and Disa«ter at Chatham, have begotten Opinions
in the Vulgus of the World to our Prejudice, a 1734 Norfh
Examen 11. v. 8 128 (1740) 394 Asforthe yulgus of the Faction,
we know very well what their Employ was.
YulgnS 2 {wXgvs), [Prob. an alteration oivulgars
: see Vl'lgau sb. 4] In some public schools,
a short set of Latin verses on a given subject.
1857 Hughes Tom Brown ir. iii, Ihe three fell to work
with Oradus and Dictionary upon the morning's vulgus.
1870 Mansfield School Life Winchester 107 We were always
excused. .Vulgus w)ien the next day was a Saint'sday.^
1887 T. A. Tkollope iK//t, A halbert erect or. on
the point a flying dragon (or wivern) or. without legs, tail
nowed sa. bezantee, vulned gu.
t2. /f^. Of conscience : Wounded. Ob^."^
i6a8 Ff.ltham Resolves 11. [i.] Ixiv. 183 Let them that
deny the immortality of the Souie, bee immerged in the
horrours of a vulned conscience.
Vulnerability (vrlneiabi-Uti). [f. next -f-
-iTY.] The quality or slate of being vulnerable, in
various senses.
1808 Has. Mohe Ccelebs ix. I. loS Kor fear, however, that
your heart of adamant should hold out against all these
perilous assaults, its vulnerability was tried in other quarters.
1864 Reuder-^i Dec. 825/1 Up to the last, however,
the self.)>linded rulers of China refused to believe in their
vulneral>ility. 1869 Reed Our Iron^Clad Ship xi. 253 'Ihts
report also bears testimony to the vulnerability of the low
decks.
b. spec, in Path, (see quot. 1880).
1880 A. Flint Frinc. Med. 92 The term vulnerability has
been, of late, applied to a condition of the system fa,vorabIe
for the morbific operation of any causes, either ordinary or
specific. 1898 AllbutVs Syst. Med. V. 176 A fact which
points to the existence of a special vulnerability of this part
of the lung itself.
Vulnerable (v27*lnerab'l\ a. [ad. late L.
vitlnerabilis wounding, f. vulnerare (see Vulnz;.),
but taken passively in accordance with the more
usual sense of -ABLE : cf. invulnerable and Y. vulnirable,
Sp. vulnerable^ Tg. -avel^ It. abile.'\
1. Having power to wound ; woundintj. Obs.~^
•f*
1609 Ambassy Sir R. Skcrley 13 The male children practise
to ride greate horses, to throw the Vulnerable and Ineuitable
darte.
2. That may be wounded ; susceptible of receiving
wounds or physical injury.
1605 SiiAKS. J//if:(i. v. viii. 11 Let fall thy blade on vulnerable
Crests, I beare a charmed Life. 1696 Phillips (ed. 5),
Vulnerable, that maybe wounded. 1791 CowrFR///rt(/ iv.
606 Turn, turn, ye Trojans ! face your Grecian foes. They,
like yourselves, are vulnerable flesh. Not adamant or steel.
1796 Morse Amer.Geog. I. 217 [Alligators having] plates or
scales, said to be impenetrable. .except about their heads
and just behind their fore legs, where they are vulnerable.
1810 SouTHEY Kehnma ix. xii, 'J'hricc through the vulnerable
shade The Glendoveer impels the griding blade. The
wicked Shade flies howling from his foe. 1867 J. B. Rose
tr. Virgil's ^neid 151 The vulnerable heel Of dread
i'Eacides.
b. Jig» Open to attack or injury of a non-physical
nature; esp., offering an opening to the attacks of
raillery, criticism, calumny, etc.
j678CuDW0RTn/n^^//. Syst. Pref., We had further Observed
it, tohave been the Method of our Modern Atheists,
to make their First Assault against Christianiiy, as thinking
that to be the most Vulnerable. x-j^Junius Lttt.\\\.{^^Z%)
59 Keproaches and inquiites have no power to afflict either
the man of unblemished integrity, or the abandoned profligate.
It is the middle compound character wliich alone is
vulnerable. 178a Miss BuRNEvCc«//«vir. iii, There, alone,
is he vulnerable. 1814 Scott St, Rflnan''s vi, ' How de-
lighted I am,' she said, * that I have found out where you
are vulnerable I* 1863 Mary Howitt tr. F. Bremer's
Greece II. xvi. 147 His witty tongue was too keen for the
easily vulnerable gods of Delphi. 1863 Kixglake Crimea
(1873) I. i. 5 Modern society, crowing more and more vulnerable..,
is made to tremble by the mere rumour of an
appeal to arms.
O. Similarly yi\i\i^art^ point, portion.
1776 Gibbon Decl. ^ F. xiii. I. 357 Yet even calumny is
sagacious enough to discover and to attack the most vulnerable
part. 1789 Belsham Ess, II. xxxvi. 290 In this
vulnerable part, only, can the shaft of the Satirist find an
entrance. 1836 Thirlwall Greece III, xviii. 85 His private
life presented some vulnerable points, through which
his adversaries were able to strike more dangerous blows.
1847 H. Miller Test. Rocks ix. (1857) 358 Now this physical
department has ever proved the vulnerable portion of
false religions. 1871 O. W. Holmes Poet Break/.-t. x. 290
There is a human sub-species, .to a certain extent penetrative...
It has an instinct which guides it to the vulnerable
parts of the victim on which it fastens.
3. Of places, etc. : Open to attack or assault by
armed forces ; liable to be taken or entered in this
way.
1790 Beatson Nuv, ^ Mil. Mem. I. 104 The immense expence
the^ Spaniards have since been at, to foriify the city
on that side, shews it to have bevn vulnerable then. 1797
St. Vincent 16 Aug. in Nicolas Disp. Nelson (1845) II. 434
note, 'I'he Tower of Santa Ctuz in the Island of Tenerjffe,
which, from a variety of intelligence, 1 conceived was vulnerable.
1809 WtLLiNfiTON in Gurw. Desp. (1837) IV. 331
In the action of yesterday, our position was vulnerable only
on the right, i860 Motley Netherl. iii. (1868) I. 65 She
felt herself vulnerable in Ireland, and on the Scottish border.
1884 Manch. Exam. 27 May 5/1 We should find it easier
to liold [Russia] in chcLk in the far East if she had vulnerable
possessions nearer home.
b. Similarly W\\.\\ pari, point, side.
1798 WELLiNcroN in Gurw. De^p. (1837) I. 8 A vulnerable
part of ihe frontiers of the Company's territory. 1800 Col-
QUHOUM Comm. Thames v. 210 tvery vulnerable point was
guarded. 1851 Gallknca Itafy 52 Even within tho.se limits
her Lombard subjects had discovered her vulnerable side.
1856 Froude ///V/. Eng. 11858) II. viii. 277 Charles.. was
looking for the most vulnerable point at which to strike.
Hence Vu'lnerablenesa :
Vulnerably adv.
1727 Ha I LEV (vol. II), Vulmrablenfss, Capableness of being
wounded. 1837 Foreign Q. Rev. XIX. 3-; We do not think
a passage can be quoted to which criticism can be vulnerably
VULNEBATE.
attached. 1842 Manning Serm. v. (1848) I. 69 There comes
over us what I may call a vulnerableness of mind. 1894
Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. 166 The inner vulnerableness,
the inner need of her affection and of peace with her.
tVu'lneral, a. Obs. rare. [f. L. vulner-^vulnus
wound.] = Vulnerary a.
In the first quot. apparently an intentional distortion of
funeral.
1589 t? LvLv] fappeiv. Hatchet E ij, Hee sliues one, has
a fling at another, a long tale of his talboothe, of a vulnerall
sermon, and of a fooles head in souce. 1657 Physical Dii t..
Vulneral, medicines belonging to wounds, viz., plaisteis,
salves, &c. and inward potions, diet-drinks, &c.
Vulnerary (vylncrari), a. and sb. Also 6
-aryo, 7 -arie. [ad. L. vttlncrarius adj. and sb,
(Pliny), f. vulner', vulnus wound : see -ary. So
F. vulneraire (i6th c), Sp., l*g., It. vulnerarjo.'\
A. adj. 1. Useful in healing wounds ; having
curative properties in respect of external injuries
a. Of applications or potions.
1599 A. M.tT.Gabel/wuer s Bk. Physicike zgg/2 Applyethcron
a gootl boneplayster, and let him drinck a vulneir.rye
potione. 1601 Holland P/iuy 11. 160 The oile. .made of
the flours of the wild vine serveili in good stead forvulncrarie
salves and piastres. 1646 Sir T. Browne Psi ud. E/-.
It. iii. 77 The same method of cure, by ordinary Balsams, or
common vulnt-rary plasters. 1693-4 P^H' Traus.WMl.
43 Wliich did sufficienily denote this Vulnerary Pouder {as
ii s called in a late Puhhck Paper) to be a violent Causiick.
1709 Ibid. XXVI. 388 A Cumpress..dipt in a Mixture of
four Ounces of Plantain-water, and two Ounces of a Vulnerary
Water. 1754-64 Smellie Mitiwif.l. 385 Large
tents or dossils dipped in vulnerary balsanis.*i777 G. For-
STER Voy. round iVorld I. 578 A species of night-shade,
which is made use of. .as a vulnerary leniedy. 1818 Art
P7-isefi'. Feet 229 They may even find some advantage in
a lotion called 'Iheden's %ulncrary wash. 1846 CiiLi.v in
Proc, Beriv. Nat. Club II. 177 (Jeranium molle and lobertianum
are added to vulnerary potions.
b. Of herbs.
160X Holland Pliny xxvii. iv. II. 273 It is.. a good vulnerariehearbebesides,and
stancheth the bleeding of wounds
1661 J. Childrky Brit, Baeouica 171 To gather vulneraiy
Plants. 1667 Phil. Trans. II. 421 'I'o giveafuU accouniof
that Vulnerary Root, called Wichacan, 17x3 Ir. Tojnit's
Hist. Drugs I, 154 The Flowers are vulneiary; the Seed
pectoral. 1750 Johnson Rambler No. 47 p 2 1 lie woundtd
stags of Crete are related by .^lian to have recomse to vulnerary
herbs. 1788 Gentl. Mag. LVIII. 1. 103/2 Golden Rod
. .generally appears among the vulnerary or restorative
simples. i8ji Scott Pirate xxxiii. So efiicacious weie the
vulnerary plants and salves with which it had buen tieated.
1830 Lindlky Nat. ^>i/. .AV/. 60 Another species of the same
genus LLythruni] is accounted in Mexico astiingtriit and
vulnerary.