vernacular (vernakular)

and n. [ vermination (ver-mi-nā'shon), n. [ IMG:content-1793.png:[blocks in formation] An ancient father of his valley, one who is thoroughly vernacular in his talk. De Quincey, Style, ii. 2. Hence, specifically, characteristic of a locality: as, vernacular architecture. - Vernacular disease, a disease which prevails in a particular country or district; an epidemic, or more accurately an endemic, disease. II. n. One's mother-tongue; the native idiom of a place; by extension, the language of a particular calling. He made a version of Aristotle's Ethics into the vernacular. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 2. The English Church had obtained the Bible in English, and the use of the chief forms of prayer in the vernacular . Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 261. On the bar we found friends that we had made in Panama, who had preceded us a few days, long enough to speak the vernacular of mining, and to pride themselves on being "old miners." The Century , XLII. 128.