Promulgate

Quick meaning: Promulgate is a verb meaning (transitive) To make known or make public.

Meaning

(transitive) To make known or make public.

More Meanings

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

[…] 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[…]

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 !

Word Forms

• promulgates
• promulgating
• promulgated

Synonyms for promulgate

Depending on context, synonyms include declare, proclaim, publish, carry out, execute, implement.

Antonyms for promulgate

Common opposites include withhold, abrogate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include proclaim, exclaim, announce, enacting, publicise, enactment.

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