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Vul⋅gate

   [vuhl-geyt, -git]
–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.
–adjective
3. of or pertaining to the Vulgate.
4. (lowercase) commonly used or accepted; common.
Origin:
< LL vulgāta (editiō) popular (edition); vulgāta, fem. ptp. of vulgāre to make common, publish, deriv. of vulgus the public. See vulgar, -ate 1
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vul·gate     (vŭl'gāt', -gĭt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The common speech of a people; the vernacular.
  2. A widely accepted text or version of a work.
  3. Vulgate The Latin edition or translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome at the end of the fourth century A.D., now used in a revised form as the Roman Catholic authorized version.

[Medieval Latin Vulgāta, from Late Latin vulgāta (editiō), popular (edition), from Latin, feminine past participle of vulgāre, to make known to all, from vulgus, the common people.]
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Vulgate 
1609, Latin translation of the Bible, especially that completed in 405 by St. Jerome (c.340-420), from M.L. Vulgata, from L.L. vulgata "common, general, ordinary, popular" (in vulgata editio "popular edition"), from L. vulgata, fem. pp. of vulgare "make common or public," from vulgus "the common people" (see vulgar). So called because the translations made the book accessible to the common people of ancient Rome.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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vulgate

noun
the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century; as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church 

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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 Church admits to be authentic; -- so called from its common use in the Latin Church.

Note: The Vulgate was made by Jerome at the close of the 4th century. The Old Testament he translated mostly from the Hebrew and Chaldaic, and the New Testament he revised from an older Latin version. The Douay version, so called, is an English translation from the Vulgate. See Douay Bible.

Vulgate

Vul"gate\, a. Of or pertaining to the Vulgate, or the old Latin version of the Scriptures.

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