[ US /pɹoʊˈməɫɡeɪt/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɒməlɡˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. state or announce
    `I am not a Communist,' he exclaimed
    The King will proclaim an amnesty
  2. put a law into effect by formal declaration
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How To Use promulgate In A Sentence

  • When the United States allowed the President to make himself a dictator, Cubans promulgated a new constitution that abnegated the hated Platt Amendment.
  • Founded exactly 25 years ago, this group of ostentatious do-gooders vow ‘to promulgate universal joy and expiate stigmatic guilt’.
  • Both originals (instrumenta) of the Concordat of Worms were read and ratified, and twenty-two disciplinary canons were promulgated, most of them reinforcements of previous conciliary decrees. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • He wants to promulgate an extreme form of the religion he blasphemously claims to represent.
  • It is certainly not a convincing retort to point out that: the argument is inconsistent with the existence of a Board having powers as specified under Section 11 of the Broadcasting Act. However, in assenting to the Act, Parliament either did not know what it was doing; or was making an idle gesture, not expecting the Board to promulgate any regulations respecting standards of programs, the character of advertising, the amount of time that may be devoted to advertising, and other matters specifically referred to, in the Act; or as I believe to be much more likely, Parliament consciously denied the argument that broadcasting can be left to the normal criteria and judgments of the market place. A High Standard
  • Prior to the operation, the government promulgated a special ordinance to speed up legal proceedings.
  • Additionally, the secretary of state may promulgate regulations interpreting ambiguous provisions of the act.
  • Judicial rules, promulgated prior to such statute and which were more favorable to the interests of remaindermen, can be relied upon by the latter only insofar as said rules were intended to operate retroactively; for the decedent, in whose estate the remaindermen had an interest, died even before such court rules were established. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
  • At the parish level, the fear of schism ensured that the church remained a militant one, committed to the policies of Catholic reform first promulgated by the council of Trent.
  • Increased congressional use of federal executive agencies to administer federal statutes and to promulgate regulations which effectuate legislative policies.
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