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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xii. sig. Oo2 To the vulgare beckning with his hand, In signe of silence, as to heare a play.

1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 194 All places they with follie haue possest, And with vaine toyes the vulgare entertaine But me haue banished.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ii. 66 The vulgar most to Pompey bends.

1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ii. 66 (margin) The vulgar do more affect Pompey then Cæsar.

1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 57 in Scepsis Scientifica Which saying holds not only in Morals, but in all things else which the vulgar use to judge in.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 8 This is directly levell'd against the gross Idolatry of the Vulgar.

1738 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 77/1 Her enlightened Horn is turn'd towards the Horizon, or, as the Vulgar speak, The Moon lies on her Back.

1783 Ld. Hailes Disquis. Antiq. Christian Church vi. 182 (note) The heathen vulgar might have inferred the likelihood of an approaching apotheosis.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ii. 92 The mysteriousness of an unknown dialect served to impose on the vulgar.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth Introd., in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 15 We talk of a credulous vulgar, without always recollecting [etc.].

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. vii. 126 Nor was this the suspicion of the vulgar alone, it seems to have been shared by the clergy.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 824 The growths..render the patient a remarkable and hideous object, exhibited for gain to the gaze of the vulgar.