propound

Definition of propound

Etymology

From the Middle English proponen (“to put forward”) < Latin proponere (“to put forward”) < pro- (“before”) + ponere (“to put”)

Verb

propound (third-person singular simple present propounds, present participle propounding, simple past and past participle propounded)

1. To put forward; to offer for discussion or debate.
   
   * 2005, Plato, Lesley Brown (translator), Sophist, 243b:
   Each school propounds its own theory without having given any thought to whether we are following what they say or getting left behind.