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verb

Publish v. t. (past & past part. published; pres. part. publishing)

To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. "Published was the bounty of her name." "The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand."

To make known by posting, or by reading in a church; as, to publish banns of marriage.

To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.

To utter, or put into circulation; as, to publish counterfeit paper. (U.S.)

To publish a will (Law), to acknowledge it before the witnesses as the testator's last will and testament.

Synonyms: To announce; proclaim; advertise; declare; promulgate; disclose; divulge; reveal. See Announce.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Publish" Quotes from Famous Books

... that a pamphlet, a newspaper article, or a resolution moved at a political meeting can do all the mischief that a play can, and often more; yet we do not set up a permanent censorship of the press or of political meetings. Any journalist may publish an article, any demagogue may deliver a speech without giving notice to the government or obtaining its licence. The risk of such freedom is great; but as it is the price of our political liberty, we think it worth ...

— The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet • George Bernard Shaw

... like if I could to publish this book with blank pages for a few million signatures—and a place for the new President or proposed President ...

— The Ghost in the White House • Gerald Stanley Lee

... proprietors were by their charter empowered to enact, and, under their seal, to publish any laws or constitutions they judged proper and necessary to the public state of the province, with the assent, advice and approbation of the freemen of the colony; to constitute counties, baronies and colonies within the province; to ...

— An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The Colonies Of South Carolina And Georgia, Volume 1 • Alexander Hewatt

... purpose is to finish and publish my purely Canadian History of the United Empire Loyalists as soon as possible, and leave the other to my executors—yourself and others—to do as you please. I am assured that my two volumes on the Puritans in Old and New England will raise ...

— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson

... have always envisaged the fact that during a war we might be driven to compulsion. Also in writing out fully my views on this subject (views which I was not permitted by late Chiefs of the General Staff to publish) I have always, for that reason, pressed for National Registration. It does no one any harm, and rubs into the mind of the young man that, under certain conditions, the State has first pull on his pocket, labour, life and everything else. But, of course, if your own wish that the 29th Division ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton

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