Meaning

(archaic) Made common, published for common use..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) Made common, published for common use.
2. (of a text, especially the Bible, not comparable) In or pertaining to the common version or edition.
3. The language of a people, especially the commoners.
4. (of a text, especially the Bible) A common version or edition.
5. To publish, spread, promulgate to the people.

Example Sentences

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 […]

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.

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

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.

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

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

Amongst the traditional vulgated anecdotes floating about the world

Word Forms

• more vulgate
• most vulgate
• vulgates
• vulgating
• vulgated

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When Should You Use Vulgate?

Use vulgate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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