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.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
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
In his version, the Vulgate, Jerome translated Keren, the Hebrew word for "ray, horn" as "cornuta," Latin for "horns."
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was called "the Vulgate," from the Latin vulgus, "the common people."
From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman
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
They will pep up, with all the connotations this vulgate word implies.
From Time Magazine Archive
His judgment is good, and if Ehwald and Owen had supplied him with more information on other manuscripts and on the Heinsius-Burman vulgate, his text might well have superseded all previous editions.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
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