Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make known (a decree, for example) by public declaration; announce officially. See Synonyms at announce.
- v. To put (a law) into effect by formal public announcement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; publish; announce; proclaim.
- Synonyms Declare, Announce, Proclaim, etc. See announce.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To make known or public.
- v. transitive To put into effect as a regulation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish.
WordNet 3.0
- v. state or announce
- v. put a law into effect by formal declaration
Etymologies
- From Latin promulgatus, past participle of promulgō ("I make known, publish"), either from provulgō ("I make known, publish"), from pro ("forth") + vulgō ("I publish") or mulgeō ("I milk"), latter used in metaphorical sense of “to bring forth”. Compare promulge. (Wiktionary)
- Latin prōmulgāre, prōmulgāt-. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Their first step was a high-handed approach to the agents, insisting they could simply "promulgate" SAG's authority over all actor's contracts and take legal action if the ATA, the agents 'organization, didn't toe the line.”
Mike Farrell: The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight Strikes Again
“A babble of disgust rose from the Labour benches who were even unimpressed by the fact that Brian managed to use the word "promulgate" in mid-insult.”
“During an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News which aired Sunday September 7, 2009, Barack Obama bemoaned what he claimed were insidious Republican attempts to "promulgate," falsely, his "Muslim connections.”
“Though he's more than willing to embrace the seemingly limitless potential for digital media to promulgate new ideas, Darnton's real argument is that the printed book will never be entirely replaced -- and that, ultimately, the printed book is irreplaceable.”
“Do they promulgate a conservative ascendency when they fail to draw real lines between them and the other party?”
“They should try as much as possible to promulgate a policy that will reach the grass roots, he said.”
Voice of America: New Nigerian Cabinet Faces High Expectations
“While government at the local level has the discipline of real work and public visibility when they manage our transportation, parks, schools, and environment; the federal government and its staff seem several steps removed from the reality of the rules they promulgate and the regulations they enforce.”
The Huffington Post: Steven Cohen: We Need a Smart, Agile and Innovative Environmental Police Force
“Climate deniers, who promulgate error after error (from misreporting satellite data, to misrepresenting historical temperature records, to misinterpreting paleoclimatic data, to much more) do not do the same - they simply deny the evidence (hence the term).”
“Because Congress recently authorized the SEC to promulgate just such a rule, the corporate lobby couldn't rely on its usual allegation that the agency had vastly overreached its statutory authority.”
The Washington Post: Chamber of Commerce's junk lawsuit clogs up the courts
“There's been a real rise in legislation that's intended to force boards of health and departments of health to promulgate regulations that are really not about health and safety but are just a back door way of restricting access to abortion, she said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘promulgate’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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Familiar
Just a list of words
fulminate, unctuous, malediction, lumpenproletariat, descry, surfeit, sententious, supernumerary, unabashed, picayune, obliterate, decry and 109 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Jesse's random
bathos, dragoman, tessellated, escutcheon, eikon, mondaine, basilisk, ciborium, rubric, machicolation, jet, defalcation and 198 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
replete, steeped, eminent, indiscriminate, voracious, automaton, prognosticate, technology, abound, matron, tinge, compound and 297 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Latin
exempli gratia, deus ex machina, prolix, sisyphean, minatory, empyrean, cicatrix, demulcent, effulgence, emulsion, garum, ablative and 39 more...
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GRE
sycophant, obsequious, volubility, equanimity, enervate, effrontery, impertinent, platitude, impudence, quiescent, propitiate, equivocate and 103 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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aykut gre
mossy, intrusive, mettlesome, soliloquy, mocking, dissembler, prevarication, histrionics, aphorism, distinction, concise, pensive and 61 more...
Tweets
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dewiclark29 prom-uhl-geyt, proh-muhl-geyt
–verb (used with object), -gat·ed, -gat·ing. 1. to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
2. to set forth or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, etc.).
Sep 22, 2008
gliph How odd that I would happen upon your commentary while submitting new words. I believe this one is a favorite of our World History book's authors? Mar 2, 2008
koldewyse Also, something like propagate. Dec 4, 2007