promulgate

Verb

promulgate (third-person singular simple present promulgates, present participle promulgating, simple past and past participle promulgated)

1. (transitive) To make known or make public.
   • ’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.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
   • 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 !1784 November 6, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: Or, A Review of Schools”, in Poems, page 303

   Synonyms:

   declare, proclaim, publish

   Antonyms:

   withhold

2. (transitive) To put into effect as a regulation.
   • […] 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[…]1881 June 7, William Stubbs, “The Reign of Henry VIII”, in Seventeen Lectures on the Study of Medieval and Modern History and Kindred Subjects, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1887, page 293

   Synonyms:

   carry out, execute, implement, put into effect

   Antonyms:

   abrogate

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

   Synonyms:

   propagate, promote, disseminate