vernile

English

Etymology

From Latin vernilis (“servile”). See vernacular.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈvɜː(ɹ)naɪl/, /ˈvɜː(ɹ)nɪl/

Adjective

vernile (comparative more vernile, superlative most vernile)

  1. Suiting a slave; servile; obsequious.
    • c. 1841, Thomas De Quincey, Libellous Attack by a London Journal:
      The example […] of vernile scurrility.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vernile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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