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

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

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

Remembering this, I forbear tying Sellar to odi profanum vulgus.

From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

She invited him to visit her garden—a sanctuary into which the profanum vulgus were never allowed to penetrate.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

Sedere cœpit sententia hæc pariterque et eruditum vulgus et rude in eam cursu vadit.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Ab Arabibus vel ab Indis inventas esse, non vulgus eruditorum modo, sed doctissimi quique ad hanc diem arbitrati sunt.

From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Karpinski, Louis Charles