Propound
[prə'paʊnd]
Definition
(v. t.) To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.
(v. t.) To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Propose.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Propose, promulgate, express, declare, maintain, advocate, propagate, broach
ANT:Repress, suppress, contradict, withdraw, repudiate, renounce, abjure, recal,retract
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Definition
v.t. to offer for consideration: to exhibit.—n. Propound′er.
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Examples
- I share this horror when certain socialists begin to propound their schemes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Indeed, mamma, since you propound the riddle, I think you ought to solve it! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was not free from apprehension that he would come back to propound through the gate, And sixteen? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Lord Decimus could not undertake to propound any theory about it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This latter alternative, which was first propounded by Pallas, seems by far the most probable, and can, indeed, hardly be doubted. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Sam Weller received both of these suggestions with unexpected contempt, and again propounded his question. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Augustine laughed immoderately at the grave and anxious face with which Miss Ophelia propounded the question. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There is, also, some probability in the view propounded by Andrew Knight, that this variability may be partly connected with excess of food. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- To the gathering of notables, a summoned assembly of leading men, Calonne propounded a scheme for a subsidy to be levied upon all landed property. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An Englishman once told me that the utter freedom of speech in Hyde Park was the best safeguard England had against the doctrines that were propounded there. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That education is formative of mind is not questioned; it is the conception already propounded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Now, whether,' said Mr Boffin, gravely propounding a case for his Secretary's opinion; 'whether one might call that a superstition? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Say it was papers,' Mr Venus propounds. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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