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Propose   /prəpˈoʊz/   Listen
verb
Propose  v. t.  (past & past part. proposed; pres. part. proposing)  
1.
To set forth. (Obs.) "That being proposed brimfull of wine, one scarce could lift it up."
2.
To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.
3.
To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend. "I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England."
To propose to one's self, to intend; to design.


Propose  v. i.  
1.
To speak; to converse. (Obs.) "There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice, Proposing with the prince and Claudio."
2.
To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.
3.
To offer one's self in marriage.


noun
Propose  n.  Talk; discourse. (Obs.)





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"Propose" Quotes from Famous Books



... relations to God—as children to a father, and to each other as brethren. Will not the thoughts that we have one Father quiet us, and the thoughts that we are brethren unite us? It was this that made Abraham propose terms of peace to Lot (Gen 13): 'Let there be no strife,' saith he, 'between us, for we are brethren.' And we read of Moses, in Acts 7:26, using this argument to reconcile those that strove together, and to set them ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... the sale of our village." I now promised this party to be the leader, and raised the standard of opposition to Keokuk, with a full determination not to leave our village. I had an interview with Keokuk, to see if this difficulty could not be settled with our Great Father, and told him to propose to give any other land that our Great Father might choose, even our lead mines, to be peaceably permitted to keep the small point of land on which our village was situated. I was of the opinion that the white people had plenty of land and would never take our village from ...
— Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk • Black Hawk
... valleys, giving good cover for supports and forward guns, and on the right a broad longitudinal valley closed by a ridge on which stood the village of Mericourt. The French had a stiff task in front of them, and did not propose to advance as far as the British—6,000 yards—with the result that even if they were successful our frontage, thrown back from left to right, would be 7,500 yards, and if unsuccessful over 10,000. Added to this their zero hour was nearly an hour after ours, and there would be a very real ...
— A Short History of the 6th Division - Aug. 1914-March 1919 • Thomas Owen Marden
... "I propose we start a psychic society here and now," said Cameron. "I'll be president, Mrs. Quigg secretary, and Garland can be the director of the awful rites. Miss Brush, you shall be ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland
... exception signified their acquiescence. They consequently proceeded to propose the themes and to fix ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin


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