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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
propound
v : put forward, as of an idea
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