promulgate

To promulgate is to officially put a law into effect. Your state may announce a plan to promulgate a new traffic law on January 1st.

Laws aren't the only things you can promulgate. The word promulgate comes from the Latin word promulgatus, meaning "make publicly known." Someone can promulgate values, belief systems, and philosophies — it just means they're promoted or made public. For example, you might write an article to promulgate the benefits of eating only organic foods.

Definitions of promulgate
1

v state or announce

Synonyms:
exclaim, proclaim
Types:
declare
proclaim one's support, sympathy, or opinion for or against
trumpet
proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet
clarion
proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion
Type of:
declare
state emphatically and authoritatively

v put a law into effect by formal declaration

Type of:
announce, declare
announce publicly or officially

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