promulge
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of promulge
1480–90; < Latin prōmulgāre to make known, promulgate, equivalent to prō- pro- 1 + -mulgāre, probably akin to mulgēre to milk, extract
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Thus we pronounce not so much against the principle of culture; we only supervise it, and promulge along with it, as deep, perhaps a deeper, principle.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
Warriors of Islam! attend a moment, and listen well to the precepts which I am about to promulge to you for observation in times of war.
From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin
Wisdom he wills not only for himself, But undergoes the sacred rites whereby The privilege he hath earned he may promulge, And all men make the partners of his light.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
Mr. Speaker, excuse my zeal in this case; for my mouth cannot imprison what my mind intends to let out; neither can my tongue conceal what my heart desires to promulge.
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker
He was among the first to oppose the innovations of the crown and promulge liberal principles.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
Thus stands the decree prescribing our demeanour towards this sovereign in the Republic of Letters, as we find it promulged, and bearing date at the palace of Lincoln’s Inn, Nov.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
So that it is clear he was saying, that we had no Constitution in comparison with that just promulged by the Spanish nation.
From A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father by William Cooper
Extraordinary doctrines these for the age in which they were promulged, affording a still more extraordinary contrast with those which have been since familiar in that unhappy country!
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by William Hickling Prescott
I will therefore recede; the edicts, which, as you have truly heard, were to-day to have been promulged, shall sleep at least another day.
From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by William Ware
You must remember his prohibition of the use of cloth of gold and of silk, among other things—foolish laws to be suddenly promulged among so vain and corrupt a population as this of Rome.
From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by William Ware
But the first decretal Epistle now extant is this of Siricius to Himerius; by which the Pope made Himerius his Vicar over all Spain for promulging his Decrees, and seeing them observed.
From Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John by Sir Isaac Newton
But Fame with rapid haste the city roam’d In ev’ry part, promulging in all ears The suitors’ horrid fate.
From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper
We allude to the discussions of slavery at Lane Seminary, and the memorable expulsion of a number of the students for their persistence in promulging antislavery doctrines.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
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