Promulgate

Definition: Promulgate

Promulgate

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.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "promulgate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Synonyms: Promulgate

Command

Issue a command; make a requisition, issue a requisition, promulgate a requisition, make a decree, issue a decree, promulgate a decree, make an order, issue an order, promulgate an order; Noun: give the word of command, give the word, give the signal; call to order; give the law, lay down the law; assume the command; (authority); remand.

Publication

Verb: publish; make public, make known; (information); speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice.

Crosswords: Promulgate

Civil Liberties

Estonia

On June 29, President Lennaert Meri refused to promulgate the law, declaring, in part, that it constituted an intrusion into the sphere of autonomy of religious institutions. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

The PRC planned to promulgate a new constitution based largely on the suspended 1979 constitution, before the May 29, 1999 inauguration of the new civilian president. (references)

Lebanon

The president has the authority to promulgate laws passed by the National Assembly, to issue supplementary regulations to ensure the execution of laws, and to negotiate and ratify treaties. (references)

Political Rights

Yemen

Following a constitutional referendum in February, the President no longer has the authority to introduce legislation and promulgate laws by decree when Parliament is not in session. (references)

Trade

Canada

Canada will also promulgate new regulations to ensure that the list of items controlled under the ECL is consistent with that of the USML. (references)

Worker Rights

Vietnam

The Labor Law requires the Government to promulgate rules and regulations that ensure worker safety. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Afrikaans

afkondig (issue, proclaim, publish, reveal). (various references)

Albanian

përhap (bruit, delate, develop, diffuse, dilate, disseminate, distribute, introduce, let out, permeate, propagate, radiate, slop, spread, start, Ted, transmit), shpall (adjudicate, announce, assert, asseverate, blaze, celebrate, declare, delate, divulge, enounce, enunciate, hold, notify, post, proclaim, pronounce, read, state, usher in), nxjerr një dekret. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نشر (apply, be published, bear, braying, bring out, broadcast, circulate, diffusion, dispose, disseminate, distribute, edition, expand, extend, fudge, gazette, give out, hang out, insert in a newspaper, irradiate, issue, overspread, peddle, pervade, popularize, print, proclaim, programming, promulgation, propagation, publicize, publishing, put forth, put out, run, saw, sawing, sawn, scatter, shake out, sow, spread, sprinkle, strew, thrust, trephine, unfold, unroll, unwrap), ‏أعلن (advertise, advertize, announce, avow, bill, blare, celebrate, count, declare, denote, enunciate, gazette, portend, predicate, proclaim, profess, pronounce, protest, publicize, publish, put out, report, represent, rule, show, sound, state, usher, vote), ‏أذاع (bandy, blazon, break, broadcast, celebrate, circulate, cry, proclaim, propagate, publish, radio, transmit, vend). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разпространявам (broadcast, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, generalize, overspread, propagate, purvey, put about, tell around), обявявам (advertise, advertize, announce, bill, declare, intimate, meld, post, proclaim, put up, vote), обнародвам (manifest, notify, publish), оповестявам (announce, bring out, give out, proclaim, publish), провъзгласявам, давам гласност на. (various references)

Chinese 

�' (to spread), � '發 (award, issue), � '佈 (issue, publish), � ' (issue, send out, to grant or confer), 公布 (Promulgated, Promulgating). (various references)

Czech

vyhlásit (announce, call, declare, manifest, proclaim, publish, set forth). (various references)

Dutch

uitvaardigen (issue, proclaim), afkondigen (issue, proclaim, publish, reveal). (various references)

Esperanto

promulgi. (various references)

Farsi 

ترویج کردن (Cultivate, Promote), انتشاردادن (Advertise, Announce, Issue, Propagate), اعلام کردن (Acclaim, Enunciate, Exclaim, Herald, Notify). (various references)

Finnish

julkaista (announce, make public, publish). (various references)

French

promulguer (proclaim). (various references)

German

verkünden (acquaint, advertise, announce, annunciate, declare, enunciate, forebode, give notice, give out, Herald, inform, let know, preach, presage, proclaim, pronounce, to announce, to annunciate, to enunciate). (various references)

Greek 

διακηρύττω, διαδίδω (bruit, diffuse, disseminate, noise, propagate, report, rumor, rumour, sound, spread), δημοσιεύω νόμο, δημοσιεύω (publicise, publish, release). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרסם חוק, ל�"פיץ (circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, propagate, scatter, sow, spread). (various references)

Hungarian

kihirdet (annunciate, proclaim, sing out, to announce, to enunciate, to fulminate, to give out, to hammer a defaulter, to proclaim, to proscribe, to sound), közhírré tesz (to bill, to give out, to promulgate), elterjeszt (disseminate, scatter, set about, spread, to disperse, to disseminate, to generalize, to put about, to scatter, to universalize). (various references)

Indonesian

mengawam (announce). (various references)

Italian

promulgare (enact, publicise, publicize, publish, say goodbye). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

法令�'敷く (to promulgate a law). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほうれい�'しく (to promulgate a law). (various references)

Korean 

공포하십시�". (various references)

Manx

fockley magh (blurt, declare, proclaim, proclamation, profess, promulgation, pronounce, pronouncement, pronunciation). (various references)

Pig Latin

omulgatepray

Portuguese

propagar (diffuse, disseminate, propagate, send, sow, transmit), promulgar (constitute, make, proclaim), proclamar (acclaim, announce, annunciate, blazon, declare, denounce, herald, issue, preach, proclaim, pronounce, publish, voice), tornar conhecido (acquaint, banalize, bruit, forestall, noise, notify, proclaim, publish, retail, signify, sound, vulgarize), espalhar (bestrew, blow, buzz, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, drift, drop, flecker, fleece, fling, intersperse, noise, overblow, overspread, propagate, publish, put about, retail, rumor, rumour, run through, scatter, send, sow, spill, sprawl, spread, stretch, strew), disseminar (disseminate, radiate, scatter, sow), anunciar (advertize, advise, announce, annunciate, bill, counsel, forestall, foretoken, give notice, herald, intimate, make known, notify, poster, pronounce, say, set forth, show forth, tolling). (various references)

Romanian

publica oficial, promulga (issue), rãspândi (broadcast, carry, cast, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, Dot, emit, fling, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, propagate, radiate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw). (various references)

Russian 

опубликовывать (promulgating, publish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

objaviti (advertise, advertize, annunciate, declare, give out, notify, proclaim, publicize, publish). (various references)

Spanish

promulgar (enact, issue, make public, proclaim), difundir (bandy about, broadcast, bruit, diffuse, radiate, send, set about, spread, transmit). (various references)

Swedish

utfärda (issue), kungöra (announce, make known), förkunna (announce, declare, preach, proclaim). (various references)

Turkish

yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), yayınlamak (emit, feature, give forth, Herald, issue, print, produce, publish, put forth, run, telecast, televise, transmit), resmen ilan etmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

оприлюднити (make public, proclaim, unveil), поширювати (distribute, expand, extend, generalize, intend, noise, outstretch, propagate, push, put about, radiate, retail, set about, shed, sow, spread, vend, widen). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "promulgate": promulgated, promulgates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Promulgate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prmulgate, profulgate, promilgate, promuglate, promulate, promulgtae, promuligate, provulgate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: emulator, outglare, promulge, temporal.

-3 letters: ampoule, earplug, glamour, gloater, glomera, gluepot, gomeral, gourmet, graupel, legator, marplot, morulae, moulage, moulter, outleap, outrage, pergola, plaguer, plumage, plumate, portage, poulter, premolt, prolate, rampole, tegular, templar, tempura, torulae, trample, tumoral.

-4 letters: aerugo, ampler, ampule, amulet, armlet, galore, gaoler, garote, gelato, glamor, gulper, legato, lumper, malgre, mature, mauger.

+1 letter: promulgated, promulgates.

+4 letters: preformulating, pyrometallurgy.