Vulgate

[ UK /vˈʌlɡe‍ɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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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How To Use Vulgate In A Sentence

  • And he impacts so directly not because the public understands greatness in a way that the literary establishment doesn't (or, as critics suggest, because King has access to a mystical vulgate that ‘proper’ novelists can't or won't use).
  • The Septuagint and Vulgate translate it, "electrum"; Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Now cold came to the Jews, as it does to us, from the north, and the star which we know as Arcturus could not be described as typifying that direction either now or when the Septuagint or Vulgate versions were made. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
  • In fact you would find in most English-speaking countries that the churches and congregations would tend to use the English translations of the Psalms rather than the traditional Latin Vulgate.
  • Westcott claimed that the English Bible was greater than the Vulgate because nobody had died for the latter.
  • The exhortation is ironical, as in Jer 46: 4, 9. 15. thy valiant men -- manuscripts, the Septuagint, and Vulgate read, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The English word "maundy" is derived from the Latin word mandatum, which is the Vulgate's translation of Jesus 'words in John 13: 34: "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another. ABP News
  • How unhip the language: "vulgate," "spinal block" and "womb," not the province of language poetry, far too sincere and bodily, far too rhythmic, but more unwieldly than the formalists. Strange Bedfellows
  • Even St. Jerome, the distinguished fourth-century Doctor of the Church, biblical translator, and author of the Vulgate Bible, described the primary sin of Sodom as "pride, bloatedness, the abundance of all things, leisure and delicacies. What Was the Real Sin of Sodom?
  • There is nothing particularly progressive, as Dan Atkinson & Larry Elliot point out in The Age of Insecurity, in a European Union in which the prerogatives of a brutal neoliberalism form the current vulgate.
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