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Propagate

verb

(past & past part. propagated; pres. part. propagating)

Transmit from one generation to the next.

Travel through the air.

Transmit.

Become distributed or widespread. Synonym: spread. "Optimism spread among the population"

Transmit or cause to broaden or spread.

Cause to become widely known. Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, spread. "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"

Cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering.

Multiply sexually or asexually.

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"Propagate" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Vienne, in Gaul, his character of Acacius, 93; his letter to Clovis on his conversion, 124; urges his duty to propagate the faith in the peoples around him, 126; writes to the Roman senate that the cause of the Bishop of Rome is not one bishop but that of the Episcopate ...

— The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI - The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I • Thomas W. (Thomas William) Allies

... presence of those with whom I feel most in accord. The further graces and powers of religion readily submit to a similar description. My sense of positive sympathy expresses itself in an attitude of well-wishing; living in an atmosphere of kindness I instinctively endeavor to propagate it. My buoyancy is distinctly of that quality which to a lesser degree is due to any sense of social security; my power is that of one who works in an environment that reenforces him. I experience the objective or even cosmical ...

— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry

... sometimes thought that in morals, on the whole, she stood far above most women. She hated falsehood—hated it with all her heart, and a story of injustice maddened her. When I think of Marcella it helps me to picture the Russian girls who propagate Nihilism.' ...

— Born in Exile • George Gissing

... writing of good verse, pleased at its sound and pleased as well by the reflection of the pleasure it will give to others. Or he may be devoted, and follow a creed, a single truth or a character which he loves, and whose influence and glory he makes it his business to propagate. Or he may be but a worker in some material, a carver in wood, or a manager of commercial affairs, or a governor and administrator of men, and yet so order his life that his work and his material are his object: not his gain in the end—not his appreciable ...

— On Something • H. Belloc

... basic instincts in the character of the normal individual; the will to live, and the will to propagate the species. It is from the interplay of these instincts that prostitution took origin, and it is for this reason that this profession is the oldest in human experience, the first offspring, as it were, of savagery and of civilization. When Fate turns the leaves of the book of universal ...

— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter

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