vulgate

name

1. A particular Latin translation of the Bible made by Saint Jerome in the late 4th century CE.

adj

1. (archaic)Made common, published for common use.
2. (not-comparable)In or pertaining to the common version or edition.

noun

1. 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 […]”

   “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.”

2. A common version or edition.

verb

1. To publish, spread, promulgate to the people.

   “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”