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promulgate

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15
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20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈpɹɒml̩.ɡeɪt/ (UK)
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/ˈpɹɒml̩.ɡeɪt/ (UK) · /ˈpɹɑ.məl.ɡeɪt/ (US)

Definition of promulgate

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To make known or make public.
    “’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 !”
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verb

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

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English promulgaten, from Latin prōmulgātus, perfect passive participle of prōmulgō (“to make known, publish”), either from provulgō (“to make known, publish”), from pro (“forth”) + vulgō (“to publish”), or from mulgeō (“to bring forth”, literally “to milk”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of promulge.

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