Both Uses of
promulgate
in
The Purloined Letter
- The mathematicians, I grant you, have done their best to promulgate the popular error to which...
*promulgate = spread
- The mathematicians, I grant you, have done their best to promulgate the popular error to which you allude, and which is none the less an error for its promulgation as truth.†
Definition:
spread word or announce