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Thesaurus: propound

To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.

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  1. v. t. To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to propound an argument.
  2. v. t. To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.
  3. v. put forward, as of an idea
  4. 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.
  5. To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communionwith a church.
  6. v:100 v. put forward, as of an idea