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▪ I. † diˈvulgate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. dīvulgāt-us, pa. pple. of dīvulgāre to divulge.]
Made public, spread abroad. (Chiefly used as pa. pple. = divulged.)
a1440Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 19 This dede anoon was dyvulgate by all the Cyte. 1513Douglas æneis Dyrectioun, ad fin., Every burell rude poet divulgait. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 210 The fame of this unhappy battall, divulgat in the cuntre. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 216 It was diuulgate through all Rome.
▪ II. divulgate, v.|dɪˈvʌlgeɪt, daɪ-|
Also 6 de-.
[f. L. dīvulgāt-, ppl. stem of dīvulgāre to divulge. Pa. pple. and (in Sc.) pa. tense in 16th c. often divulgat(e: see prec.]
trans. To make commonly known; to publish abroad.
1530Palsgr. 523/2, I dyvulgate a mater, I blowe it abrode..I thought full lytell he wolde have dyvulgate this mater. 1531Elyot Gov. Proem, I am violently stered to deuulgate or sette fourth some part of my studie. 1623Hart Arraignm. Ur. iii. vi. 119, I hope that honest and ingenuous Physitians will..abstaine from divulgating abroad their billes or bookes. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 362, I know not whether the facts have been divulgated. 1878Besant & Rice Monks of Th. xxv, Why should she wish her choice to be divulgated?
Hence diˈvulgated ppl. a., diˈvulgating vbl. n.; also diˈvulgater, -ator.
1537Throgmorton Let. to Cromwell in Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) III. 228 The divulgating of the censures. 1599Jas. I βασιλ. Δωρον To Rdr., The un-timous divulgating of this booke. 163.M. Parker Harry White's Humour (N.), To that great promulgater And neat divulgater Whom the citie admires. 1842Blackw. Mag. LII. 659 Our divulged and divulgated attachment to the veneranda rubigo. |