pra məl geIt [or] pro muhl geIt
transitive verb
1. to institute (a law or court decree) by proclamation.
For a law to be known by all, it must be promulgated.
“That a law may be obeyed, it is necessary that it should be known: that it may be known, it is necessary that it be promulgated. But to promulgate a law, it is not only necessary that it should be published with the sound of trumpet in the streets; not only that it should be read to the people; not only even that it should be printed: all these means may be good, but they may be all employed without accomplishing the essential object. They may possess more of the appearance than the reality of promulgation. To promulgate a law, is to present it to the minds of those who are to be governed by it in such manner as that they may have it habitually in their memories, and may possess every facility for consulting it, if they have any doubts respecting what it prescribes.” (Jeremy Bentham, Of Promulgation of the Laws)
2. to explain or give instruction in (a doctrine) in public; advocate.
Feminists promulgated their views on the rights of women.
“Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.” Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist