promulge

American  

[proh-muhlj] / proʊˈmʌldʒ /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.

promulged, promulging

1. to promulgate.

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Other Word Forms

• promulger
  noun

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

Example Sentences

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promulge promulged promulging

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

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

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

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

Now, too, the disaster which had befallen the 'Guardian', and the liberal and enlarged plan on which she had been stored and fitted out by government for our use, was promulged.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench

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

Both are considered, when first promulged, as irreconcilable with the plain teaching and consequent inspiration of the Scriptures.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

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

Enlarging on this congenial theme, and applying it to England and English requirements, he promulged in 1868 a very revolutionary scheme for Public Education.

From Matthew Arnold by George William Erskine Russell

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

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