1551,James A.H. Murray, editor,A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society.[1], volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published1888, Part 1, page217:
Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onelyvulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
And, placed discreetly among these commonplaces, a few pieces of genuine quality, bizarrely distinguished by craftsmanship from thevulgar products of the machine.
2023 May 28, Robert Armstrong, “The world wobbles; the luxury industry strides on”, inFT Weekend, Life & Arts, page21:
Several years ago I interviewed the CEO of a car manufacturer whose products start in the six figures. He told me his customers could always afford to buy his cars, but in recessions they found itvulgar to do so.
It might be more useful to the English reader[…] to write in ourvulgar language.
1834–1874,George Bancroft,History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume(please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.:Little, Brown and Company [et al.],→OCLC:
The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in thevulgar tongue within the reach of every class.
1860, G. Syffarth, “A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York”, inTransactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, page265:
Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes thevulgar name of KingTakellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.
1869, Richard Francis Burton,The Highlands of the Brazil, page85:
A vulture (V. aura), probably the Acabiry first described by Azara, is here called[…] the hunter. It resembles in form thevulgar bird, but it flies high. The head is red, and the wings are black with silver lining, like the noble Bateleur of Africa.
2016, Evan Gottlieb, Juliet Shields,Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830:
Popular antiquarian writings[…] frequently focused on the regionalvulgars' superstitious beliefs regarding the dead and their ongoing presence—such as popular funeral rites or thevulgars' fear of church yards.
1623,William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies; Published according to the True Originall Copies, London,act 5, scene 1,page204, Internet Shakespeare Editions:
Therefore you Clowne, abandon: which is in thevulgar, leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female: which in the common, is woman: which together, is, abandon the society of this Female,[…]
(Or in a modern form: Therefore, you clown, abandon—which is in thevulgar, “leave”—the society—which in the boorish is “company”—of this female—which in the common is “woman”—which together is: abandon the society of this female,[…])
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vulgar”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
