promulge

American  

[proh-muhlj] / proʊˈmʌldʒ /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

promulged, promulging

1. to promulgate.

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Other Word Forms

• promulger
  noun

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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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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

promulge promulged promulging

If falsehood uses the press to promulge her doctrines, let truth oppose her with the same weapon. 

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

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

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

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

With these, and out of these, I promulge new races of Teachers, and of perfect Women, indispensable to endow the birth-stock of a New World.

From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And yet, with all his zealous personal endeavors and high authority, he could hardly get it posted, promulged, or at all respected in Germany.

From Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties by Joseph A. Seiss

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

To declare the sacerdotal duties, and those of the other classes in due order, the sage Menu, sprung from the self-existing, promulged this code of laws.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

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

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

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

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

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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