vulgus

[vuhl-guh s]

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noun, plural vul·gus·es for 2.

the common people; masses.
an exercise in Latin formerly required of English public-school pupils.

Origin of vulgus

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1680–90

ad captandum vulgus

[ahd kahp-tahn-doo m woo l-goo s; English ad kap-tan-duh m vuhl-guh s]

Latin.

in order to please the mob.

Origin of ad captandum vulgus

literally, for courting the crowd

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Related Words for vulgus

commonality, bourgeoisie, Everyman, Everywoman, vulgus, infrastructure, masses, multitude, proletariat, rabble, riffraff

Examples from the Web for vulgus

Historical Examples of vulgus

So the table was cleared, the cloth restored, and the three fell to work with Gradus and dictionary upon the morning's vulgus.
Tom Brown's School Days
Thomas Hughes
Now in the study that night, Tom was the upholder of the traditionary method of vulgus doing.
Tom Brown's School Days
Thomas Hughes
Maria Filelfo, then staying at Bergamo, wrote a violent satire in vulgus equitum auro notatorum.
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
Jacob Burckhardt
Vulgus Cantabrigiense, inhospitales Britannos antecedit, qui cum summa rusticitate summum militiam conjunxere.
Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars
Richard Gooch
Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa, stimat—The masses judge of few things by the truth, of most things by opinion.
Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
James Wood