promulgate
Declare to all
To promulgate is to make something widely known, especially by official announcement or formal declaration.
Laws and regulations are promulgated when formally put into effect: The FDA promulgated new guidelines for food labeling.
Religious doctrines and political ideologies are promulgated when actively spread to gain adherents.
The word carries an air of authority—you promulgate decrees, not suggestions.
Declare officially and openly
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- publicizeMake information widely available
- declareState officially
- heraldOfficial news announcer
trumpet · blazon · disseminate · circulate · communicate · publish · release · disclose
Make official rules
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
- ordainConfer clerical authority
- codifyOrganize into formal rules
- ratifyFormally confirm agreement
sanction · institute · establish · formalize · implement · enforce · execute · administer
Spread information widely
- propagateSpread or breed further
- circulateMove in a loop
- diffuseSpread thinly throughout
- transmitTo send onward
distribute · disperse · permeate · proliferate · broadcast · extend · expand · convey
Enacted written rule
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- edictAuthoritative public command
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
directive · act · bill · amendment · code · jurisprudence · gazette · legalization
proclaim
Declare officially and openly
herald · trumpet · blazon · disseminate · circulate · communicate · publish · release · disclose · divulge
legislate
Make official rules
ratify · sanction · institute · establish · formalize · implement · enforce · execute · administer · validate
disseminate
Spread information widely
transmit · distribute · disperse · permeate · proliferate · broadcast · extend · expand · convey · radiate
statute
Enacted written rule
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- edictAuthoritative public command
mandate · directive · act · bill · amendment · code · jurisprudence · gazette · legalization · legislature
- fancy wordsgrandiloquent, magniloquent, sesquipedalian, pulchritudinous, tintinnabulation
- Officialesehereby, heretofore, hereunto, whereas, aforementioned
- activationactivate, triggers, firing, commence, initiate
promulgation, promulgated, promulgating, promulgates, promulgators