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. To make known or public.
- v. 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
- Latin prōmulgāre, prōmulgāt-.
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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Jesse's random
bathos, dragoman, tessellated, escutcheon, eikon, mondaine, basilisk, ciborium, rubric, machicolation, jet, defalcation and 154 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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Words starting with PRO
I've noticed many, many words start with PRO and this is just a collection of them.
professional, pronunciation, Prolagus, probable, prog, proximity, profit, procrastincate, prom, pronoun, promise, proactive and 206 more...
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prometheous's list
these words just tickle me for whatever reason
orange, tempestuous, meander, giggle, promulgate, moreover, gesticulate, huzzah, spontaneity, surreptitious, superfluous, plebeian and 1 more...
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Victorious Verbs
exudate, agglutinate, permeate, penetrate, attenuate, aggregate, emaciate, concatenate, exonerate, castigate, promulgate, obstinate and 2 more...
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a beginners' list
a beginner's list should be about novices and all those that start on new journeys
noob, beginner, new, left foot, threshold, dawn, start, go, adventurer, undeterred, brave, foolish and 61 more...
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Latin
exempli gratia, deus ex machina, prolix, sisyphean, minatory, empyrean, cicatrix, demulcent, effulgence, emulsion, garum, ablative and 15 more...
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•Public List: Pommelions and Papermills
Started on pommelion--a place for all those words that feature P, then M, then L inside them. Somewhere.
pommelion, papermill, pimple, pemoline, pall mall, pell-mell, peppermill, paleomammalogy, philomelian, pummel, pimpernel, pimpmobile and 32 more...
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Galactic Milk - words that lead the whey
conjectures on words related to the roots melg- and (ga)lakts-
galaxy, galena, milch, milk, lettuce, lactic, galenious, moojuice, galax, lactalbumin, emulsion, milch cow and 29 more...
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