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Definition of "vulgate" []

  • The common speech of a people; the vernacular. (noun)
  • A widely accepted text or version of a work. (noun)
  • 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. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "vulgate" in a sentence
  • "But the vulgate is the only ver - sion which has thus read the passage."
  • "It is more a difference between 'confused thinking and feeling people' and an 'easily mesmerised and manipulated 'vulgate', that is to say the GOP and tea party set."
  • "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."