a. and sb. [f. prec. + -IAN.]
A. adj. = VULGAR a. (in later use in sense 13).
c. 1650. Denham, To Sir J. Mennis, i. All on a weeping Monday, With a fat vulgarian sloven, Little Admiral John To Boulogne is gone.
1833. Fraser’s Mag., VIII. 625. Compare this with the vulgarian twaddle of the old Blacking-man.
1876. World, V. No. 114. 3. A position in the scale of popular amusements precisely analogous to the vulgarian paradise known as the music-hall.
B. sb. A vulgar person; freq., a well-to-do or rich person of vulgar manners.
1804. Mar. Edgeworth, Ennui, vi. The man is married, to some vulgarian, of course.
1821. L. Hunt, Indicator, No. 66 (1822), II. 106. You are thought little better than a vulgarian.
1853. Lytton, My Novel, V. ix. Did you not marry a low creature—a vulgarian—a tradesman’s daughter?
1888. Athenæum, 21 July, 93/1. One of the most repulsive vulgarians we have ever met with out of real life.
