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Webster 1913 Edition


Propound

Pro-pound′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Propounded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Propounding
.]
[From earlier
propone
, L.
proponere
,
propositum
, to set forth, propose, propound;
pro
for, before +
ponere
to put. See
Position
, and cf.
Provost
.]
1.
To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose;
as, to
propound
a question; to
propound
an argument.
Shak.
And darest thou to the Son of God
propound

To worship thee, accursed?
Milton.
It is strange folly to set ourselves no mark, to
propound
no end, in the hearing of the gospel.
Coleridge.
2.
(Eccl.)
To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.

Webster 1828 Edition


Propound

PROPOUND'

,
Verb.
T.
[L. propono; pro and pono, to set, put or place.]
1.
To propose; to offer for consideration; as, to propound a rule of action.
The existence of the church hath been propounded as an object of faith.
2.
To offer; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question.
3.
In congregational churches, to propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church. Persons intending to make public profession of their faith, and thus unite with the church, are propounded before the church and congregation; that is, their intention is notified some days previous, for the purpose of giving opportunity to members of the church to object to their admission to such communion, if they see cause.

Definition 2024


propound

propound

English

Verb

propound (third-person singular simple present propounds, present participle propounding, simple past and past participle propounded)

  1. To put forward; to offer for discussion or debate.
    • 2005, Plato, Lesley Brown (translator), Sophist, 243b:
      Each school propounds its own theory without having given any thought to whether we are following what they say or getting left behind.

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