| 单词 | promulgated |
| 释义 | promulgated (once / 2912 pages) adj Promulgated means "published," or "formally and publicly declared." Newspaper opinion pieces contain promulgated ideas and viewpoints. Promulgated comes from the Latin word promulgare, which means "to make publicly known." Promulgated laws are ones that are announced by some kind of formal proclamation. But these days you'll more often hear about promulgated ideas — it's a fancier way of saying they're promoted or shared with a lot of other people. So those thoughts you post to your blog? They're all promulgated opinions. WORD FAMILYpromulgate: promulgated, promulgates, promulgating, promulgation, promulgator+/promulgation: promulgations/promulgator: promulgators USAGE EXAMPLESThe man, Edgar M. Welch, told the authorities he planned to help rescue children after reading articles that promulgated the fake news story. New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) But the more than 170,000 pages of the Code of Federal Regulations contain tens of thousands of rules promulgated by largely unaccountable agencies. Washington Post(Nov 16, 2016) And yet similar measures are routinely promulgated on the Knesset floor. New York Times(Oct 20, 2016) adj formally made public Syn published publicised, publicized made known; especially made widely known |
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