Pro-pound', v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. PROPOUNDED; p. pr. & vb. n. PROPOUNDING.] [Lat. proponere. See PROPOSE.]
Sense 1. To lay before; to offer for consideration; to exhibit; to propose; as, to propound a question.
And darest thou to the Son of God propound To worship thee accursed? Milton.
It is a strange folly to set ourselves no mark, to propound no end, in the hearing of the gospel. Coleridge.
Sense 2. (Congregational Churches.) To propose or name as a candidate for admission to communion with a church.