vulgate
nounEtymology From Latin vulgātus, past participle of vulgō (“publish, make common, cheapen”).
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The language of a people, especially the commoners.
- 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 […]1988, Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Journal, page 96:
- 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.1995, William A. Katz, Dahl's history of the book, page 89:
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- English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79).2004, Cornelius Cosgrove, Nancy Barta-Smith, In Search of Eloquence, page 187:
- 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.2011, Abbas Amanat, Michael Ezekiel Gasper, Is There a Middle East?, page 153:
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Of a text A common version or edition.
Especially the Bible