Propound Definition

prə-pound
propounded, propounding, propounds
verb
To put forward for consideration; propose.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Propound

  • From the Middle English proponen (“to put forward"), from Latin proponere (“to put forward"), from pro- (“before") + ponere (“to put")

    From Wiktionary

  • Alteration of propoune from Middle English proponen from Latin prōpōnere to set forth propose

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Propound Sentence Examples

  • He was one of the first, if not quite the first, to propound the conception of periodicity among the chemical elements.

  • However, I only propound it, and leave every man to his own method.

  • Not twenty years after Luther's defiance of the pope, the startling thesis " that all that Aristotle taught was false " was prosperously maintained by the youthful Ramus before the university of Paris; and almost contemporaneously the group of remarkable thinkers in Italy who heralded the dawn of modern physical science - Cardanus, Telesio, Patrizzi, Campanella, Bruno - began to propound their Aristotelian theories of the constitution of the physical universe.

  • The main object of the Moralists is to propound a system of natural theology, and to vindicate, so far as natural religion is concerned, the ways of God to man.

  • But it was not until 1860 that he definitely began to propound a new social scheme, denouncing the dogmas of political economy.

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Words Starting With

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Words Starting With P and Ending With D

Starts With P & Ends With DStarts With PR & Ends With DStarts With P & Ends With ND

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With P8 Letter Words Ending With D