v. U.S. [Irreg. f. VERNACULAR a. + -ATE3.]
1. trans. To call or term in the vernacular.
1887. Semi-weekly Tribune (N.Y.), 15 July (Cent.). Very large Antwerp ‘patches,’ as they are vernaculated by the average fruit-grower.
1898. Morning Post (NC), 6 March, 4/1. Nothing could be more helpful to the farmers just at this juncture than [pr. that] a concise, vernaculated statement of Mr. [John R.] Smith’s real opinions of the true inwardness of things at the Capitol, as it relates to the capacity of the present administration to farm the farmers.
2. intr. To use vernacular language.
1895. in Funk’s Stand. Dict.
