v.
   - prepare and issue (a book, journal, or piece of music) for public sale. 
▸print in a book or journal so as to make generally known.
 - formally announce or read (an edict or marriage banns).
 - Law  communicate (a libel) to a third party.
 
 
  Derivative
  
    - publishable adj.
  - publishing n.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from the stem of OFr. puplier, from L. publicare ‘make public’, from publicus (see public).