promote
promote
v. trans.
Help on: P. and V. σπεύδειν, ἐπισπεύδειν.
With non-personal subject: P. προφέρειν εἰς (acc.).
Subserve: P. and V. ὑ̆πηρετεῖν (dat.).
Exalt in rank: P. and V. αὐξά̆νειν, αὔξειν, αἴρειν, προτῑμᾶν, Ar. and V. ὀγκοῦν, τί̄μιον ἀ̆νά̆γειν.
v. trans.
Help on: P. and V. σπεύδειν, ἐπισπεύδειν.
With non-personal subject: P. προφέρειν εἰς (acc.).
Subserve: P. and V. ὑ̆πηρετεῖν (dat.).
Exalt in rank: P. and V. αὐξά̆νειν, αὔξειν, αἴρειν, προτῑμᾶν, Ar. and V. ὀγκοῦν, τί̄μιον ἀ̆νά̆γειν.
PROMOTE
To aid assist Vid:
To forward anybody’s interests servire alicujus commodis; rebus or rationibus alicujus consulere or prospicere; the interests or welfare of a state saluti reipublicae consulere; rempublicam juvare tueri; reipublicae salutem suscipere; a study studiis favere studia concelebrare (by pursuing it eagerly; of several persons Cic. Invent. 1 3 4).
To advance to honor aliquem augere tollere attollere (to raise a man to posts of honor in a state): fovere (to show favor to by one’s acts): ornare exornare (to distinguish): gratia et auctoritate sua sustentare (support by one’s influence). (The words are found in this connection and order.) augere atque ornare; augere et adjuvare; fovere ac tollere; sustinere ac fovere: to anything producere ad dignitatem (to raise to a post of honor): promovere ad or in munus or ad locum (to promote to an office; not promovere alone): to promote anybody to a higher rank or office aliquem promovere ad (in) ampliorem gradum ad ampliora officia (☞ promovere etc. in this sense is always post-Augustan; the best writers use the word only in the strict physical sense to move or push forward; Krebs): to be promoted ascendere (ad) altiorem gradum; promoveri ad altiorem gradum (general term); in ampliorem ordinem evehi (of military men; after Caes. B.C. 1 77): to be promoted through all the grades to the highest command efferri per honorum gradus ad summum imperium: to be promoted by anyone auctum adjutumque ab aliquo ascendere altiorem gradum; in altiorem locum ascendere per aliquem; alicujus beneficio altiorem dignitatis gradum consequi: to be promoted from a lower post to a higher promoveri ab humili ordine ad altiorem gradum; to the highest posts ad summos honores provehi.
To aid assist Vid:
To forward anybody’s interests servire alicujus commodis; rebus or rationibus alicujus consulere or prospicere; the interests or welfare of a state saluti reipublicae consulere; rempublicam juvare tueri; reipublicae salutem suscipere; a study studiis favere studia concelebrare (by pursuing it eagerly; of several persons Cic. Invent. 1 3 4).
To advance to honor aliquem augere tollere attollere (to raise a man to posts of honor in a state): fovere (to show favor to by one’s acts): ornare exornare (to distinguish): gratia et auctoritate sua sustentare (support by one’s influence). (The words are found in this connection and order.) augere atque ornare; augere et adjuvare; fovere ac tollere; sustinere ac fovere: to anything producere ad dignitatem (to raise to a post of honor): promovere ad or in munus or ad locum (to promote to an office; not promovere alone): to promote anybody to a higher rank or office aliquem promovere ad (in) ampliorem gradum ad ampliora officia (☞ promovere etc. in this sense is always post-Augustan; the best writers use the word only in the strict physical sense to move or push forward; Krebs): to be promoted ascendere (ad) altiorem gradum; promoveri ad altiorem gradum (general term); in ampliorem ordinem evehi (of military men; after Caes. B.C. 1 77): to be promoted through all the grades to the highest command efferri per honorum gradus ad summum imperium: to be promoted by anyone auctum adjutumque ab aliquo ascendere altiorem gradum; in altiorem locum ascendere per aliquem; alicujus beneficio altiorem dignitatis gradum consequi: to be promoted from a lower post to a higher promoveri ab humili ordine ad altiorem gradum; to the highest posts ad summos honores provehi.
promote:
I. To advance to honour:
1. prōvĕho, xi, ctum, 3: would your merit have p.d you to any honour? ecquo te tua virtus provexisset? Cic. Ph. 13, 11, 24: so. ad [amplissimos] honores p., Suet. Caes. 72: Plin. min.
2. prōmŏveo, mōvi, tum. 2 (not so used in time of Cic.): to p. any one to a higher rank, aliquem in ampliorem gradum pr., Suet. Oth. 1: Plin. min. (N.B.--Neither of the above should be used absol., but foll. by ad honorem, etc.) Phr.: to p. friends to the highest honours, (amicos) ad amplissimos honores perducere, Cic. Am. 20, 73 (= secure their advancement): I cannot deny that Hirtius was p.d to honour by Caesar, negare non possum a Caesare Hirtium ornatum, id. Ph. 13, 11, 24: to be p.d from the ranks to be a general, *ex gregario milite (manipulari) ducem fieri: to be p.d from the ranks to the supreme command, *per omnes honorum gradus ad summam imperii evehi, ascendere.
II. To further, aid, jŭvo, adjŭvo, prōsum: v.TO AID , ASSIST . Phr.: to seek to p. the good of one's fellow-citizens, civibus consulere, Cic. Off. 1, 25, 85; utilitatem civium tueri, ib.: to seek to p. the arts, artes fovere, Suet. Vesp. 18. See also TO DEVOTE (oneself); STUDY .
III. To conduce to: expr. by făcio, prōsum: v.GOOD (adj. II., fin.).
I. To advance to honour:
1. prōvĕho, xi, ctum, 3: would your merit have p.d you to any honour? ecquo te tua virtus provexisset? Cic. Ph. 13, 11, 24: so. ad [amplissimos] honores p., Suet. Caes. 72: Plin. min.
2. prōmŏveo, mōvi, tum. 2 (not so used in time of Cic.): to p. any one to a higher rank, aliquem in ampliorem gradum pr., Suet. Oth. 1: Plin. min. (N.B.--Neither of the above should be used absol., but foll. by ad honorem, etc.) Phr.: to p. friends to the highest honours, (amicos) ad amplissimos honores perducere, Cic. Am. 20, 73 (= secure their advancement): I cannot deny that Hirtius was p.d to honour by Caesar, negare non possum a Caesare Hirtium ornatum, id. Ph. 13, 11, 24: to be p.d from the ranks to be a general, *ex gregario milite (manipulari) ducem fieri: to be p.d from the ranks to the supreme command, *per omnes honorum gradus ad summam imperii evehi, ascendere.
II. To further, aid, jŭvo, adjŭvo, prōsum: v.
III. To conduce to: expr. by făcio, prōsum: v.