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.
(lowercase) any commonly recognized text or version of a work.
of or relating to the Vulgate.
(lowercase) commonly used or accepted; common.
a commonly recognized text or version
everyday or informal speech; the vernacular
< 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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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.
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For Ronald, youngest and most celebrated of the four, it meant translating a Roman Catholic English Bible�Old and New Testaments�from the Latin Vulgate.
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Now comes Super Bowl XI, eleven in the Vulgate, and the distinctions between sports and show business approach invisibility.
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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.
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Magnificat, mag-nif′i-kat, n. the song of the Virgin Mary, Luke, i. 46-55, beginning in the Vulgate with this word.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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