Promulgate

['prɒm(ə)lgeɪt] or ['prɑmlɡet]

Definition

(verb.) put a law into effect by formal declaration.

Checker: Yale--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.

Editor: Quentin

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Publish, announce, proclaim, declare, advertise, trumpet, make known, blaze abroad, spread abroad, noise abroad, give notice of, make promulgation of.

Typist: Montague

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Divulge, announce, publish, spread, propound, disseminate, proclaim, advertise

ANT:Repress, conceal, suppress, stifle, hush, burke, discountenance

Typist: Rex

Definition

v.t. to publish: to proclaim: to make widely known—(arch.) Promulge′.—ns. Promulgā′tion act of promulgating: publication: open declaration: (law) the first official publication of a new law; Prom′ulgātor.

Editor: Matt