Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRO-MOTE, v.t. [L. promotus, promoveo, to move forward; pro and moveo, to move; It. promovere; Sp. promover; Fr. promouvoir.]

1. To forward; to advance; to contribute to the growth, enlargement of excellence of any thing valuable, or to the increase of any thing evil; as, to promote learning, knowledge, virtue or religion; to promote the interests of commerce or agriculture; to promote the arts; to promote civilization or refinement; to promote the propagation of the Gospel; to promote vice and disorder.
2. To excite; as, to promote mutiny.
3. To exalt; to elevate; to raise; to prefer in rank or honor. I will promote thee to very great honors. – Num. xxii. Exalt her, and she shall promote thee. – Prov. iv.