v.
- promote or make widely known (an idea or cause)
Also: promulgation (n.)
[The Anthologist — Nicholson Baker]
Lexicon
verb [with object]
win or regain the favor of (a god, spirit, or person) by doing something that pleases them: the pagans thought it was important to propitiate the gods with sacrifices.
[The Iliad of Homer – Trans. Richmond Lattimore]
adjective
having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters: she’d been the subject of much prurient curiosity.
[Tess Myers, in conversation, after we agreed we’d both used this word but had never actually looked it up]
n.
- Land added to a royal forest by unlawful encroachment, but afterward disafforested, and restored to the former owners, its bounds and extent being settled by perambulation.
- The borders or environs of any place; the outskirts; outlying places: as, the purlieus of Paris.
[The Waves — Virginia Woolf]