The Collaborative International Dictionary
Promulgator \Pro"mul*ga`tor\, n. [L.]
One who promulgates or publishes.
--Dr. H. More.
Wiktionary
n. A person who promulgates; a publisher.
WordNet
n. (law) one who promulgates laws (announces a law as a way of putting it into execution)
Usage examples of "promulgator".
But no sooner had Christianity obtained a foothold on earth, multiplied its converts, and gained some outward sway, than its Judaizing disciples and promulgators, fastening on that which was easiest to comprehend and practise, that which was most impressive to the imagination, that which seemed most sharply to distinguish them from the unbelieving and unconforming world around, thrust far into the background this universal and eternal test of judgment set up by Jesus himself, and in place of it installed an exclusive test fashioned after a more developed and aggravated pattern of the very narrowest and worst elements in the Phariasaism which he expressly came to supersede.
Toogood that the promulgators of such doctrines ought to be consigned to the treadmill.