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Promulgate   /proʊmˈəlgeɪt/   Listen
Promulgate

verb
(past & past part. promulgated; pres. part. promulgating)
1.
State or announce.  Synonyms: exclaim, proclaim.  "The King will proclaim an amnesty"
2.
Put a law into effect by formal declaration.






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"Promulgate" Quotes from Famous Books



... has just ordered a new levy of three hundred thousand men; the proclamations of the senate contain a challenge to the allied powers. They find themselves called on again to promulgate to the world the views by which they are guided in this present war, the principles which form the basis of their conduct, their wishes, and their intentions. The allied powers are not making war on France, but on the openly admitted preponderance which, to the great misfortune of Europe and France, ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... police regulations; but more commonly the townships and town officers, conjointly with the justices of the peace, regulate the minor details of social life, according to the necessities of the different localities, and promulgate such enactments as concern the health of the community, and the peace as well as morality of the citizens.[74] Lastly, these municipal magistrates provide of their own accord and without any delegated powers, ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al

... good unto me to support James G. Birney, for President, and to promulgate the principles of the platform on which he stood in the last election. This I would do, and no man had the right or power to stop me. My paper was a six column weekly, with a small Roman letter head, my motto, "Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward," the names of my candidates ...
— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

... promulgate his decrees, his herald proclaimed them from Tzatzitepec, the hill of shouting, with such a mighty voice that it could be heard a hundred leagues around. The arrows which he shot transfixed great trees; the stones he threw leveled forests; and when he laid his hands on the rocks the mark ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

... to drop down from Heaven among us with sufficient power to cut to the root of abuses, to reform the administration, to send the priests to church and the Austrians to Vienna, to promulgate a civil code, make the country healthy, restore the plains to cultivation, encourage manufactures, give freedom to commerce, construct railways, secularize education, propagate modern ideas, and put us into a condition to bear comparison with the most enlightened countries ...
— The Roman Question • Edmond About


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