Word Meanings - PROPOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church. (more info) to set forth, propose, propound; pro for, before + ponere to put. See 1. To offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question; to

Additional info about word: PROPOUND

To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church. (more info) to set forth, propose, propound; pro for, before + ponere to put. See 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROPOUND)

• Affirm
• Assert
• swear
• testify
• tell
• aver
• propound
• asseverate
• depose
• state
• declare
• endorse
• maintain
• Announce
• Declare
• give notice
• enunciate
• advertise
• publish
• report
• notify
• make known
• give out
• reveal
• herald
• proclaim
• intimate
• promulgate
• Avouch
• Aver
• protest
• profess
• Broach
• Moot
• start
• launch
• originate
• suggest
• exhibit
• Enunciate
• State
• pronounce
• syllable

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROPOUND)

• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to PROPOUND)

• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• SYLLABLE
  1. An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it is a vowel or a diphtong, either by itself or flanked
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• PUBLISH
  Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day,
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• AFFIRMATIVELY
  In an affirmative manner; on the affirmative side of a question; in the affirmative; -- opposed to negatively.
• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• HERALD
  An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character. 2. In the Middle Ages, the officer
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• ASSERT
  self, claim, maintain; ad + serere to join or bind together. See 1. To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• REPUBLISH
  To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone.