promulge

English edit

Etymology edit

Compare French promulguer. See promulgate.

Verb edit

promulge (third-person singular simple present promulges, present participle promulging, simple past and past participle promulged)

(transitive) To promulgate; to publish or teach.
- 1768, Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England:
  the prince by his edict may promulge a new code, more ſuited to the preſent emergencies.
- 1839, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella:
  Extraordinary doctrines these for the age in which they were promulged

Synonyms edit

(to publish): disclose, make known; See also Thesaurus:announce
(to teach): educate, instruct

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “promulge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)