promulgate

1. (transitive) To make known or make public.Examples: "’Tis yet to know, / Which when I know, that boaſting is an Honour, / I ſhall promulgate. I fetch by life and being, / From Men of Royall Seige."; "Prieſts have invented, and the world admir’d / What knaviſh prieſts promulgate as inſpir’d ; / ’Till reaſon, now no longer overaw’d, / Reſumes her pow’rs, and ſpurns the clumſy fraud ; / And, common-ſenſe diffuſing real day, / The meteor of the goſpel dies away !"Synonyms: declare, proclaim, publishAntonyms: withholdtransitive

2. (transitive) To put into effect as a regulation.Examples: "[…] the Statute of Uses was delayed until 1536 and the Statute of Wills until 1540, but both statutes were promulgated in 1532, and formed part of a policy which we may compare, not favourably, with the of Edward I[…]"Synonyms: carry out, execute, implement, put into effectAntonyms: abrogatetransitive

3. (transitive, nonstandard) To advocate on behalf of (something or someone, especially of an idea); to spread knowledge of and make more widely known.Synonyms: propagate, promote, disseminatenonstandardtransitive