Douay Bible

American  

[doo-ey] / ˈdu eɪ /

noun

1. an English translation of the Bible, prepared by Roman Catholic scholars from the Vulgate. The New Testament was published at Rheims in 1582 and the Old Testament was published at Douai in 1609–10.

---

Douay Bible British  

/ ˈduːeɪ /

noun

1. an English translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate text completed by Roman Catholic scholars at Douai in 1610

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Douay Bible

To the ring of fanfares he arose, removed his black topcoat, stepped forward with Chief Justice Earl Warren and, over a closed, family Douay Bible, repeated his oath in a clear, crisp voice.

From Time Magazine Archive

"And on earth peace, good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will."

From Time Magazine Archive

All citations from the Holy Bible, and references thereto, made in the translations for this work, are taken from the standard editions of the English Douay Bible.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 13 of 55 1604-1605 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

The Douay Bible of 1609 was presented by Sir Rich.

From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn

In England, too, church questions temporarily rose uppermost during debates in Parliament over the proposed government assistance to schools in which the Douay Bible, or Roman Catholic version of the Scriptures, was used.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin