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Word of the Day for Saturday, October 12, 2013

promulgate \PROM-uhl-geyt, proh-MUHL-geyt\, verb:

1. to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
2. to set forth or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, etc.).

The mathematicians, I grant you, have done their best to promulgate the popular error to which you allude, and which is none the less an error for its promulgation as truth.
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Purloined Letter," 1844

I think it means that we promulgate simple and comprehensible laws so that people know where they stand.
-- Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, 1996

Promulgate comes from the Latin promulgare meaning "make publicly known." It entered English in the 1500s.

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