vulgus

American  

[vuhl-guhs] / ˈvʌl gəs /

noun

plural

vulguses

1. the common people; masses.

2. an exercise in Latin formerly required of English public-school pupils.

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Etymology

Origin of vulgus

Borrowed into English from Latin around 1680–90

Example Sentences

Now in the study that night, Tom was the upholder of the traditionary method of vulgus doing.

From Tom Brown's School Day's by Hughes, Thomas

This was called "the Vulgate," from the Latin vulgus, "the common people."

From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

He knew, and they knew perfectly well that, whatever the vulgus profanum may think, my real work was the critical edition of Sâyana’s commentary on the Rig-veda.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

Senatorque vocor, vulgus me poplite curvo, Muneribusque datis veneratur, fronte retecta.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

So Lactantius, "Magi et ii quos verè maleficos vulgus appellat."

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal