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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-gayt, -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

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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

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

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

Paul's Epistle, holding forth the redeeming grace of Christ as an antidote, reinforced his interpretation: in the Latin Vulgate, as Augustine read it, Paul's meaning was clear: it was Adam "in whom all have sinned."

From Time Magazine Archive

Secondly, without the Vulgate, and with the Apocrypha appended, for the Protestants of that country. 

From A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Bexley containing a statement to the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society by Francis Cunningham

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

Two years ago, at the age of 64, examining life as she does for "strong" ideas whether pleasant or unpleasant, she fastened upon glandular rejuvenation and wrote that gold mine in pseudoclinical vulgate, Black Oxen.

From Time Magazine Archive

The result is that T is the sole good representative of the vulgate class of manuscripts that is regularly cited.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Mark Bear Akrigg

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