Adjective

(en-adj)

Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

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* The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.

(classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.

* Bishop Fell

It might be more useful to the English reader to write in our vulgar language.

* Bancroft

The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.

* 1860 , G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis? , age 265

Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis , the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.

Adjective

(-)

Indigenous, native.

* 1900 , George Johnson, "Place-Names" in'' George Upham Hay (ed.), ''Canadian History Readings , volume 1?, page 89

Well, the right name, Ouigoudi , if it had been continued as the name of the settlement, would be styled an enchorial name. St. John is an imported name, having been taken from the river to which the name was given by deMonts and Champlain in 1604 because they discovered it on St. John the Baptist's Day

Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.

* 1872 , Philip Smith, A Smaller Ancient History of the East , page 130

The inscription of the Rosetta Stone is written in hieroglyphics'' and in ''enchorial letters, with a Greek translation.