vernacularize

vernacularize
vernacularization, n.
/veuhr nak"yeuh leuh ruyz', veuh nak"-/, v.t., vernacularized, vernacularizing.
to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
Also, esp. Brit., vernacularise.
[1815-25; VERNACULAR + -IZE]

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