PUB'LISH, L.publico. See Public.

1. To discover or make known to mankind or to people in general what before was private or unknown to divulge, as a private transaction to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or edict. We publish a secret, by telling it to people without reserve. Laws are published by printing or by proclamation. Christ and his apostles published the glad tidings of salvation.

Th' unwearied sun, from day to day,

Does his Creator's power display

And publishes to every land

The work of an Almighty hand.

2. To send a book into the world or to sell or offer for sale a book, map or print.
3. To utter to put off or into circulation as, to publish a forged or counterfeit paper.
4. To make known by posting, or by reading in a church as, to publish banns of matrimony. We say also, the persons intending marriage are published that is, their intention of marriage is published.