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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  

/ ˈvʌlɡeɪt, -ɡɪt /

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

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

Great in erudition, Cardinal Gasquet had spent 22 years revising the Vulgate Bible, a task for which he wished 50 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was in the form of the Vulgate that the Scriptures were known to the Saxons and all other peoples of western Europe.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Frederic Austin Ogg

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

The Websterian ideal of language as a careful garden of hardy perennials and occasional exotics, cultivated by a corps of devoted lexicographers, is consistently challenged by a weedy invasion of the vulgate.

From Time Magazine Archive

"This is all his!" cried she, pointing to the treasure with the air of one showing Aladdin's cave; and though her speech was not very intelligible, Vaterchen's "vulgate" ran underneath and explained the text.

From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever