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Promulgate

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Anderson (1889), Abbott (1879)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To publish; to announce officially; to make public as important or obligatory. See Wooden v. Western New York & P. R. Co.. (Super. Ct.) 18 N. Y. Supp. 769.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

' 1. To pub Ush or make known a law after its enactment. Compare Prescription, 1. 3. To announce officially or publicly: as, to promulgate a postal convention, a treaty, a state paper.s See Statute.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

To announce officially; to make known formally; to make public as important or obligatory. It is used of edicts of government, laws enacted, state papers, treaties, &c. Promulge seems to have been an old form of the word: it is given by Cowel and Jacob; but it is not often used at the present day.