The phrase "as popularly defined" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a common or widely accepted definition of a term or concept.
Example: "The term 'happiness' is often understood as popularly defined by psychologists as a state of well-being and contentment."
Alternatives: "as commonly understood" or "as widely recognized".
We have quite enough lionizing of the notion of "success" as popularly defined, by a certain kind of material wealth, fame and power, the kind of success, in other words, that we have come to associate with Wall Street's wizards.
Bigotry (as popularly defined) still has its adherents, and groups of racists (or other "-ists") still do take place here.
With a recession, popularly defined as two consecutive quarters of economic decline, Mr. Berner forecasts that total growth will be 1.1percentt, year over year, in 2001.
"There is absolutely no scientific basis for the assertion that the regimens popularly defined as 'detox' will augment the body's own capacity for identifying and eliminating your own metabolic wastes or doing the same for environmental toxins," Dr. Pressman said.
Although recessions are popularly defined as two quarters or more of negative growth, the group uses a more flexible definition that tries to pinpoint peaks and troughs in economic activity.
Foreign terrorist threats tend anyhow to be popularly defined not as psychopathology but in religious, ideological or ethnic terms.
Mindfulness is a quality of human consciousness that can be independently assessed, and is popularly defined by Jon Kasatheinn awarenesswareness that arises from paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment and non-judgementally" [ 11].
Although many nationalist Tamils profess to be atheist or secular, the reaction to the news was always framed in Hindu and Buddhist notions of karma, popularly defined in the West as "what goes around comes around".
Here was a man who popularly defined the Wild West using his own experience (as Army scout, buffalo hunter, Pony Express rider), but he was also an inveterate inventor of tall tales (a genre that thrived in the West).
This was the method which popularly defines his genius or marks him as a serial killer.
Jewishness as popularly understood is something altogether more brash.
