adv. [L. vulgō adv., abl. of vulgus the common people.] Commonly, popularly. Also Comb.
a. 1623. Buck, Rich. III., I. (1646), 8. The Signiory of Penrith, vulgò, Perith in Cumberland.
1644. Symonds, Diary (Camden), 74. Pelynt. vulgo Plynt Church, com. Cornub.
1731. P. Miller, Gard. Dict., Siliqua, edulis, C. B. P. The Carob-Tree, or St. John’s-Bread, vulgô.
[1753. Lond. Mag., Sept., 396/2. Hang a small bugle cap on, as big as a crown, Snout it off with a flow’r, vulgo dict. a pompoon.]
1871. North Oxfordsh. Archæol. Soc., Notes Excurs. to Ducklington, etc., 28. It is called Yelford, but that is vulgo, it being Eleford, in correct orthography.
