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vulgate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Latin translation of the Bible, especially that completed in 405 by St. Jerome (c.340-420), c.1600, from Medieval Latin Vulgata , from Late Latin vulgata "common, general, ordinary, popular" (in vulgata editio "popular edition"), from Latin vulgata , fem. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vulgate \Vul"gate\, n. [NL. vulgata, from L. vulgatus usual, common, p. p. of vulgare to make general, or common, fr. vulgus the multitude: cf. F. vulgate. See Vulgar , a.] An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman ...
Wiktionary
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n. the vernacular language of a people
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Vulgate is a late fourth-century Latin translation of the Bible that became, during the 16th century, the Catholic Church 's officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible . The translation was largely the work of St. Jerome , who, in 382, was commissioned ...
Usage examples of vulgate.
True, a child whose delectus is taken from Cornelius Nepos or Caesar will be better prepared perhaps for going on to Virgil and Cicero than a child whose delectus is taken from the Vulgate.
Even by the editors of the Complutensian Polyglot the Vulgate was regarded with such favor that, being printed between the Hebrew and Greek, it was compared by them to Christ crucified between the two thieves.
The Vulgate, however, we may say, renders verse 3: "Quid detur tibi aut quid apponatur tibi ad linguam dolosam,"-that is, shall be given as a defence against the tongues of evil speakers.
A just apprehension that the grammarians might become more important than the theologians, engaged the council of Trent to fix the seal of their infallibility on all the books of Scripture contained in the Latin Vulgate, in the number of which the Apocalypse was fortunately included.
Morley, Dojango, and I dismounted and followed, rehearsing the balky animals in the vulgates of several languages.