Vulgate

Quick meaning: Vulgate is an adjective meaning (of a text, especially the Bible, not comparable) In or pertaining to the common version or edition.

Meaning

(of a text, especially the Bible, not comparable) In or pertaining to the common version or edition.

More Meanings

1. The language of a people, especially the commoners.
2. (of a text, especially the Bible) A common version or edition.
3. To publish, spread, promulgate to the people.
4. (archaic) Made common, published for common use.

Example Sentences

Amongst the traditional vulgated anecdotes floating about the world

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

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

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

Word Forms

• vulgates
• vulgating
• vulgated

Synonyms for vulgate

Depending on context, synonyms include vulgarized, vernacular, vulgar.

Related Words

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