These are hardly the digs at the "vulgus" that Kristol makes them out to be. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
Syndicate this column The Latin word 'vulgus' means the public, or more accurately rabble. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Originally derived from "vulgus," the crowd, it meant that roughness of language and manner which is found among the less educated. From Wordnik.com. [History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference
(Latin, vulgus), which are historically synonymous. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The mobile vulgus from San Victorino was eventually roused and things got underway. From Wordnik.com. [20 Julio de 1810 « Unknowing] Reference
Thus mob, from Latin mobile vulgus, the "fickle crowd," going back to the 18th century. From Wordnik.com. [Robin Lakoff: Cutting to the Chase] Reference
"Quaesitissimis poenis afficiebat, quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Christianos apellabat.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Now in the study that night Tom was the upholder of the traditionary method of vulgus doing. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
So the table was cleared, the cloth restored, and the three fell to work with Gradus and dictionary upon the morning's vulgus. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
The whole confidence trick was giving the mobile vulgus the illusion that things were getting better, and would continue to do so. From Wordnik.com. [The optimists of Davos past now face a world whose script has gone awry | Timothy Garton Ash] Reference
Plus sapit vulgus, quia tantum, quantum opus est, sapit. From Wordnik.com. [More Pages from a Journal] Reference
Yet am I, if I would live, forced to stoop 'ad vulgus captandum!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Night] Reference
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