1
capitalized
: a Latin version of the Bible authorized and used by the Roman Catholic Church
2
: a commonly accepted text or reading
3
: the speech of the common people and especially of uneducated people
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Early the next morning, out on Crotch Island, Ramos led Eglin and a few visitors down an old track littered with rusted machinery and piles of grout (the vulgate for waste rock) to an arena-size section of the quarry where the four men were already busy cutting stone.
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Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
By the fourth century, there was even a Bible translation in the vulgate.
—Fay Vincent, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
Literature, notably poetry, obsessed Florentine artists and intellectuals, who led the consolidation of the turn made by their fellow-citizen Dante, in the fourteenth century, from Latin to the vulgate that became modern Italian.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
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Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
By the fourth century, there was even a Bible translation in the vulgate.
—Fay Vincent, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
Literature, notably poetry, obsessed Florentine artists and intellectuals, who led the consolidation of the turn made by their fellow-citizen Dante, in the fourteenth century, from Latin to the vulgate that became modern Italian.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
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“Vulgate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vulgate. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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