promulgate

UK /ˈpɹɒml̩.ɡeɪt/ US /ˈpɹɑ.məl.ɡeɪt/
verb 3

Definitions

verb

1

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

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

To advocate on behalf of (something or someone, especially of an idea); to spread knowledge of and make more widely known.

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