vernaculate
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[edit]Verb
[edit]vernaculate (third-person singular simple present vernaculates, present participle vernaculating, simple past and past participle vernaculated)
- (rare) To express in the vernacular.
- 1950, The Chrysanthemum and Dahlia:
- Casual observers like you and I, tend to think that a sharp dividing line exists between living and nonliving things, but we are, to vernaculate, dead wrong.
- 1970, George Lewis, Luminous Night, page 263:
- “It must pay pretty well for you guys to be doing that,” she vernaculated.