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

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 Whitman, Walt

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 Cooper, William

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 Parker, Theodore

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 Hamlin, Augustus C.