Promulgate

/ˈpɹɒml̩.ɡeɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To make known or make public..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To make known or make public.
2. (transitive) To put into effect as a regulation.
3. (transitive, nonstandard) To advocate on behalf of (something or someone, especially of an idea); to spread knowledge of and make more widely known.
4. (obsolete) past participle of promulgate

Example Sentences

’Tis yet to know, / Which when I know, that boaſting is an Honour, / I ſhall promulgate. I fetch by life and being, / From Men of Royall Seige.

Prieſts have invented, and the world admir’d / What knaviſh prieſts promulgate as inſpir’d ; / ’Till reaſon, now no longer overaw’d, / Reſumes her pow’rs, and ſpurns the clumſy fraud ; / And, common-ſenſe diffuſing real day, / The meteor of the goſpel dies away !

[…] the Statute of Uses was delayed until 1536 and the Statute of Wills until 1540, but both statutes were promulgated in 1532, and formed part of a policy which we may compare, not favourably, with the of Edward I[…]

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• promulgates
• promulgating
• promulgated

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