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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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
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
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
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
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
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
Yet here he stood, promulged and published, strikingly and flagrantly pronounced!
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
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
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
On the evening before the day which had been appointed for the trial, no proclamation or other token was promulged to appease the anxiety of the cited preachers.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
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
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