PROMULGATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does promulgate mean? 

• PROMULGATE (verb)
  The verb PROMULGATE has 2 senses:

1. state or announce

2. put a law into effect by formal declaration

  Familiarity information: PROMULGATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROMULGATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they promulgate    ... he / she / it promulgates   
Past simple: promulgated   
Past participle: promulgated   
-ing form: promulgating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

State or announce

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exclaim; proclaim; promulgate

Context example:

The King will proclaim an amnesty

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

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)

promulgation (a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen)

Sense 2

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))