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propound

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

To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.

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The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter. Alexander Graham Bell

It is of him, ephebe, to make, to confect The final elegance, not to console Nor sanctify, but plainly to propound. Wallace Stevens

Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you. John Rhys-Davies

Memory is a mystery as deep as any that even psychology can propound. William Bateson

There are pessimists who hold that such a state of affairs is necessarily inherent in human nature; it is those who propound such views that are the enemies of true religion, for they imply thereby that religious teachings are Utopian ideals and unsuited to afford guidance in human affairs. Albert Einstein

Perfect contemplatives hear without astonishment all that the learned propound since they excel in a science transcending all understanding. John of St. Samson

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