[f. L. vocābulum VOCABLE sb. + -AR1.] Of, pertaining to, or concerning words.
1608. Topsell, Serpents, 282. Which wordes in their seuerall Languages, haue other significations, as are to be found in euery vocabular Dictionary.
1647. M. Hudson, Div. Right Govt., II. ii. 75. To unscruple all vocabular doubts and difficulties, let us but look into the fourteenth Ch. of Gen. and there we shall find a King of Gods own making.
1824. J. Gilchrist, Etym. Interpreter, 61. This is the most prolific origin of verbal multiplication or vocabular augmentation; for thus an indefinite number of nouns are produced by a few verbs and adjectives.
1848. Clough, Bothie, ix. Leaving vocabular ghosts undisturbed in their lexicon-limbo.
1867. Lytton, in Ld. Lytton’s Lett. (1906), I. iv. 206. Too many images and vocabular effects make the sense of the whole obscure.
