VULGARISE

vulgarize, vulgarise

(verb) act in a vulgar manner; “The drunkard tends to vulgarize”

vulgarise, vulgarize

(verb) debase and make vulgar; “The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage”

popularize, popularise, vulgarize, vulgarise, generalize, generalise

(verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; “They popularized coffee in Washington State”; “Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

vulgarise (third-person singular simple present vulgarises, present participle vulgarising, simple past and past participle vulgarised)

Non-Oxford British standard spelling of vulgarize.

Source: Wiktionary



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11 March 2025

CATECHISM

(noun) an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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