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Promulgate

//ˈpɹɑ.məl.ɡeɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make known or make public. transitive

    "’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."

  2. 2
    put a law into effect by formal declaration wordnet
  3. 3
    To put into effect as a regulation. transitive

    "[…] 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[…]"

  4. 4
    state or announce wordnet
  5. 5
    To advocate on behalf of (something or someone, especially of an idea); to spread knowledge of and make more widely known. nonstandard, transitive
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  1. 6
    past participle of promulgate form-of, obsolete, participle, past

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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