vernacularise

English

Verb

vernacularise (third-person singular simple present vernacularises, present participle vernacularising, simple past and past participle vernacularised)

1. Alternative form of vernacularize
   • 1859, Calcutta Review‎^[1], volumes 32-33, page 283:

     Vernacularise your knowledge, and it is no longer an exotic plant, dependent on man and chance.

   • 1891, The Scottish Law Review and Sheriff Court Reports‎^[2], page 339:

     Indeed the embryo of much nineteenth century reform had already appeared in the curious provision of the ancient Statutes of the Guild (chapter 10), whereby a penalty is incurred "gif ony stal (minxerit — a word which Skene vernacularises with excessive bluntness!) in the yet of the gilde or upon the wall of the gild."

   • 2009, Thomas Hoffmann, World Englishes Problems, Properties and Prospects‎^[3]:

     The Indonesians were able to vernacularise their legal system because the degree of sociopolitical dislocation was so much more, and the amount of law so much less, than in common law Malaysia.