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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹɒml̩.ɡeɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹɑ.məl.ɡeɪt/

動詞

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

1. (transitive) To make known or make public.

   Synonyms: declare, proclaim, publish

   Antonym: withhold

   • 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 Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     ’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.

   • 1784 November 6, William Cowper, “Tirocinium: Or, A Review of Schools”, in Poems, page 303:

     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 !

2. (transitive) To put into effect as a regulation.

   Synonyms: carry out, execute, implement, put into effect

   Antonym: abrogate

   • 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:

     […] 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 […]

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, disseminate

同意語

• (to make known or public): See also Thesaurus:announce

派生語

関連する語

• promulge

参照

Further reading

• “promulgate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “promulgate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “promulgate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

動詞

prōmulgāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of prōmulgō