(prop′ə·gan′də) noun
1. Any institution or scheme for propagating a doctrine, or system.
2. Effort directed systematically toward the gaining of public support for an opinion or course of action.
3. The tenets, views. etc., put forward by propaganda. [<PROPAGANDA]

(prop′ə·gan′də) noun
A society of cardinals, the overseers of foreign missions; also, the College for the Propagation of the Faith, founded by Pope Urban VIII, in 1627, for the education of missionary priests; Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide. Also College of Propaganda. [<Ital. <NL (congregatio de) propaganda (fide) (the congregation for) propagating (the faith) <L, gerund of propagare. See PROPAGATE.]