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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

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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

By publishing the original Greek, the various early Latin translations, the St. Jerome Vulgate and thousands of footnotes, the work spreads 20 pages of Genesis to 600.

From Time Magazine Archive

In his version, the Vulgate, Jerome translated Keren, the Hebrew word for "ray, horn" as "cornuta," Latin for "horns."

From Time Magazine Archive

Now comes Super Bowl XI, eleven in the Vulgate, and the distinctions between sports and show business approach invisibility.

From Time Magazine Archive

See also Hammond and Macknight; and observe that the Alexandrian and two other MSS., for δὲ in the following sentence read γάρ, and the Vulgate translates by enim, "for."

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

As for the masculine form, “it plays a generic role, that’s just the way it is, and has been since vulgate Latin.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2021

Everything: drawing, painting, language from vulgate to Olympian, mathematics, pictographs, architecture, writing in tongues, the body, the war between the sexes, myth and history, and nature, especially the sea.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2018

The critic George Steiner defined intimacy as “confident, quasi-immediate translation,” a state of increasingly one-to-one correspondence in which “the external vulgate and the private mass of language grow more and more concordant.”

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

It was this statement, more than the rather unusual honor, that irritated the chanting representatives of the vulgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Asherah or Asharah; plural, Asharth translated in the Septuagint and Latin vulgate, a tree, or "grove," in which they have been followed by most modern versions, including the English.

From Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other by Thomas Inman