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  Vulgate

  noun

  the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century a.d., and used as the authorized version of the Roman Catholic Church.
• vulgate
  vulgate

  noun

  a commonly recognized text or version

Vulgate

American  

[vuhl-geyt, -git] / ˈvʌl geɪt, -gɪt /

noun

1. the Latin version of the Bible, prepared chiefly by Saint Jerome at the end of the 4th century a.d., and used as the authorized version of the Roman Catholic Church.

2. (lowercase) any commonly recognized text or version of a work.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Vulgate.

2. (lowercase) commonly used or accepted; common.

Vulgate ¹ British  

/ -ɡɪt, ˈvʌlɡeɪt /

noun

1. 1. (from the 13th century onwards) the fourth-century version of the Bible produced by Jerome, partly by translating the original languages, and partly by revising the earlier Latin text based on the Greek versions

   2. ( as modifier )

      the Vulgate version

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vulgate ² British  

/ ˈvʌlɡeɪt, -ɡɪt /

noun

1. a commonly recognized text or version

2. everyday or informal speech; the vernacular

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adjective

1. generally accepted; common

Etymology

Origin of Vulgate

< Late Latin vulgāta ( editiō ) popular (edition); vulgāta, feminine past participle of vulgāre to make common, publish, derivative of vulgus the public. See vulgar, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

In 410 the monk Jerome produced a version of the Christian Bible in Latin, the Vulgate, which was to be the main edition in Europe until the sixteenth century.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Twenty years ago, Pope Pius X commissioned a scholar to head a research into the text of the Vulgate, the 1500-year-old standard Latin version of the Bible.

From Time Magazine Archive

The encyclical encouraged new biblical research, literary criticism, and new translations from the original languages rather than from the sacrosanct Vulgate, the 5th century Latin translation by St. Jerome.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Western world, in its scholarly moments, remembers St. Jerome as the learned ascetic who translated the Old Testament into serviceable 4th century Latin�his Vulgate remains the official Latin Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.

From Time Magazine Archive

The same mistranslation is found in the Vulgate in Hosea iv.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various