promulger
English
Etymology
From promulge + -er.
Noun
promulger (plural promulgers)
- One who promulges or publishes what was before unknown.
- 1694 October 31 (Gregorian calendar), Francis Atterbury, “The Miraculous Propagation of the Gospel. A Sermon Preach’d before the Queen at White-hall. October 21. 1694.”, in Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions. […], London: […] E. P. [Edmund Parker?] for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1708, OCLC 1015443083, part II, page 132:
- For what St. Paul ſays expreſly of Tongues, holds equally true of all other Supernatural Gifts and Powers, indulg'd to the firſt Promulgers of Chriſtianity; they were Signs to thoſe who believ'd not, not to thoſe who believ'd.
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Further reading
- promulger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Latin
Verb
prōmulger
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of prōmulgō