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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: propound)
Usage examples of "propounded".
He conducted experiments with chemicals, investigated methods of coal mining and canal building, toured salt mines, speculated on the mechanisms of heredity, collected fossils, and propounded theories on rain, the composition of air, and the laws of motion, among much else.
One idea, which remained in textbooks well into my own school days, was the baked apple theory propounded by the Austrian Eduard Suess just before the turn of the century.
These puzzles usually dealt in some way or other with his accumulated treasure, and were propounded by him solely in order that he might have the pleasure of solving them himself.
Lord Kelvin propounded the theory that matter may consist of vortex rings in a fluid that fills all space, and by a development of the hypothesis he was able to explain chemical combination.
Tartaglia had previously propounded the same puzzle with the condition that the weights may only be placed in one pan.
I present a little problem that one learned mandarin propounded to our traveller, as depicted on the last page.
Attempts at a general solution of this puzzle had exercised the ingenuity of mathematicians since 1850, when the question was first propounded, until recently.
A correspondent informs me that this puzzle game was first propounded by Mr.
It was the first really universal law of nature ever propounded by a human mind, which is why Newton is regarded with such universal esteem.
The theory Hapgood alluded to was one first propounded in 1908 by an amateur American geologist named Frank Bursley Taylor.
They knew that the Meiji oligarchy, which propounded industrialization, would need economic expansion in order to fuel this.
Yet ninjutsu was more complex than that and, as in bujutsu itself, there were many types propounded and taught.
Two or three of the gravest in company, who were of a theological turn, propounded to him the question, whether such a character was not but poorly armed for single combat with the Devil, and whether he himself would not have been a stronger opponent.
Brass stood smirking for a little while, as if he had propounded some choice conundrum.
There is, also, I think, some probability in the view propounded by Andrew Knight, that this variability may be partly connected with excess of food.