vulgate

comparative more vulgate · superlative most vulgate

1. archaicMade common, published for common use.

   Synonyms: vulgarized

2. not comparableespecially the BibleIn or pertaining to the common version or edition.

plural vulgates

1. The language of a people, especially the commoners.

   English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79).

   2004, Cornelius Cosgrove, Nancy Barta-Smith, In Search of Eloquence, page 187

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   The linguistic and socio-historical evidence herein examined suggests that the development of Coptic occurred in Ptolemaic Egypt, not only as a spoken vulgate in the Delta, but as a script produced through […]

   1988, Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Journal, page 96

   They might speak the local vulgate among themselves, and certainly among those they were trying to reach outside of the monastery, but read and spoke Latin for religious and official events.

   1995, William A. Katz, Dahl's history of the book, page 89

   Originally destined for settlements throughout India, these documents exhibit a wide range of rhetorical conventions and writing styles, combining in varying proportions the local idiom, the spoken vulgate, and the classical form of their writers' language.

   2011, Abbas Amanat, Michael Ezekiel Gasper, Is There a Middle East?, page 153

   Synonyms: vernacular, vulgar

2. especially the BibleA common version or edition.

present singular third person vulgates · participle present vulgating · participle past vulgated · past vulgated

1. To publish, spread, promulgate to the people.

   Amongst the traditional vulgated anecdotes floating about the world

   1864, Sir Francis Palgrave, The History of Normandy and of England Till 1101, volume 3

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   Ordinary and vulgated sources will usually give all that is needed for a broad outline

   1844, The Quarterly Review, volume 73

   we have seen this in the way in which the affair of Capri has been everywhere vulgated, amid endless perversion and distortion

   1844, Colburn's United Service Magazine, volume 1

1. A particular Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome in the late 4th century CE.