The Collaborative International Dictionary
Propound \Pro*pound"\, v. 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.]
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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. (Eccl.) To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.
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vb. (present participle of propound English)
Usage examples of "propounding".
Also, when we are propounding puzzles on the chessboard, it is often well to remember that additional interest may result from "generalizing" for boards containing any number of squares, or from limiting ourselves to some particular chequered arrangement, not necessarily a square.
But the reader will probably find some difficulty over the even orders, concerning which I will leave him to make his own researches, merely propounding two little problems.
The thirteenth produces the solution given in propounding the puzzle, where the cut entered at the side instead of at the top.