PROMULGATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they promulgate ... he / she / it promulgates

Past simple: promulgated

Past participle: promulgated

-ing form: promulgating

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put a law into effect by formal declaration

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "promulgate" is one way to...):

announce; declare (announce publicly or officially)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

promulgation (the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice)

promulgation (the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect)

promulgator ((law) one who promulgates laws (announces a law as a way of putting it into execution))

Sense 2

Meaning:

State or announce

Example:

The King will proclaim an amnesty

Synonyms:

exclaim; proclaim; promulgate

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "promulgate" is one way to...):

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "promulgate"):

declare (proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against)

trumpet (proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet)

clarion (proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE