Word Finder - proposed

definition

To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.

example

I propose going to see a film.

synonyms

• forthput
• put forth
• suggest

definition

(sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.

example

He proposed to her last night and she accepted him.

definition

To intend.

example

He proposes to set up his own business.

definition

To talk; to converse.

definition

To set forth.

Finally he proposed a plan which delighted us all beyond words.

The last decree proposed the convocation of a national council.

What he proposed was unbelievably generous.

One day when they were sitting on the porch steps together, Brandon proposed a solution.

Afterwards it was proposed that the archbishop himself should try the case, but this suggestion came to nothing.

It was so cool up in the tree that Miss Sullivan proposed that we have our luncheon there.

Kiera hadn't wanted to come, even for the proposed week.

That evening Marya Dmitrievna was going to the Akharovs' and proposed to take the girls with her.

Ethel looked at him as if he'd proposed a trip to the moon, stating emphatically the only activity worthy of sweat would take place in her king size bed.

Howie left for his apartment shortly after we'd agreed to conduct his proposed test.

It doubtless arose from the proposed forms for the definitions of the primacy and the pontifical magisterium.

He proposed to do so by promoting a wholesale immigration into his tsardom of master-workmen and skilled artificers.

He has proposed to Sonya!

Here we are, in this lovely parlor, just where Annie must have stood, perhaps when Rev. Martin proposed to her!

His proposed tax of a 1 This phrase is always ascribed to Lowe, and has become history in association with him.

One man proposed a book in which visitors should write their names, as at the White Mountains; but, alas!

In 1821 Mr John Scott, the editor of the London Magazine, was killed in a duel, and that periodical passed into the hands of some friends of Hood, who proposed to make him sub-editor.

The last time he saw the queen was on the 1st of February 1650, when he handed to her the statutes he had drawn up for the proposed academy.

It was proposed in the Stimm-Conferenz at Vienna in 1885, but not carried.

The proposed order of subjects was entirely altered in view of the Colenso case, for which urgency was claimed; and most of the time was spent in discussing it.

In 1801 a "plan of union" proposed by the General Association (Congregational) of Connecticut was accepted by the General Assembly, and the work of home missions in the western section of the country was prosecuted jointly.

It was proposed now to establish a more numerous hierarchy, self-contained within the limits of Burgundian rule, with three archbishops and fifteen diocesans.

Boiamund proposed to assess the tax, not according to the old conventional valuation but on the true value of the benefices at the time of assessment.

Finally, after the proclamation of the French empire (May 18, 1804) Napoleon proposed to place his brother Joseph over the Italian state, which now took the title of kingdom of Italy.

He now steadily pursued the design of the Restoration, but without holding any private correspondence with the king, and only on terms similar to those proposed in 1648 to Charles I.

Yet after these warlike declarations and after the signing of a military convention at Turin, the king agreeing to all the conditions proposed by Napoleon, the latter suddenly became pacific again, and adopted the Russian suggestion that Italian affairs should be settled by a congress.

He suggested an international congress on the question; inspired a pamphlet, Le Pape el le Con grs, which proposed a reduction of the papal territory, and wrote to the pope advising him to cede Romagna in order to obtain better guarantees for the rest of his dominions.

The proposed congress fell through, and Napoleon thereupon raised the question of the cession of Nice and Savoy as the price of his consent to the union of the central provinces with the Italian kingdom.

The proprietors had all the powers of a county palatine and proposed to establish a feudal and aristocratic form of government.

It was further proposed to appoint one regiment of redif cavalry to each redif division.

An amendment may be proposed by either branch of the legislature; if approved by two-thirds of the members elected to each branch and subsequently, at the next general election, by a majority of the people who vote on the question it becomes a part of the constitution.

He had proposed that plan to Barclay de Tolly and now wished to propose it to Kutuzov.

She was as excited as the night I proposed.

The remedy proposed by Repsold for this proved fault is to cause the whole slide to tilt instead of the microscope only; this should prove a complete remedy.

The remedy proposed by Descartes is (while not neglecting our duties to others, ourselves and God) to let doubt range unchecked through the whole fabric of our customary convictions.

Money had to be raised by taxation, and at a meeting of the states-general (March 20, 1569) the governor-general proposed (1) an immediate tax of 1% on all property, (2) a tax of 5% on all transfers of real estate, (3) a tax of io% on the sale of all articles of commerce, the last two taxes to be granted in perpetuity.

On the 15th of April they proposed that the parliament should appoint a provisional government and dissolve itself.

Varley, who proposed to make use of it in a telegraphic receiving instrument.4 In Dolbear's instrument one plate of a condenser was a flexible diaphragm, connected with the telephone line in such a way that the varying electric potential produced by the action of the transmitting telephone caused an increased or diminished charge in the condenser.

He was to draw up a written treatise, stating the course he proposed, and defending it by arguments from scripture, the fathers and the decrees of general councils.

The proposed rising was a dismal failure, but the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended and Thistlewood and Watson were seized, although upon being tried they were acquitted.

But before this event John had instituted a great inquiry, the inquest of service of June 1212, for the purpose of finding out how much he could exact from each of his vassals, a measure which naturally excited some alarm; and then, fearing a baronial rising, he had abandoned his proposed expedition into Wales, had taken hostages from the most prominent of his foes, and had sought safety in London.

Weyrother, who was in full control of the proposed battle, by his eagerness and briskness presented a marked contrast to the dissatisfied and drowsy Kutuzov, who reluctantly played the part of chairman and president of the council of war.

A person of very high standing in our Brotherhood has made application for you to be received into our Order before the usual term and has proposed to me to be your sponsor.

Nicholas, who, as the roads were in splendid condition, wanted to take them all for a drive in his troyka, proposed to take with them about a dozen of the serf mummers and drive to "Uncle's."

Boris said a few words to his general, and Count Bennigsen turned to Pierre and proposed that he should ride with him along the line.

Many names and customs were introduced into his court from that of Constantinople; he proposed to restore the Roman senate and consulate, revived the office of patrician, called himself "consul of the Roman senate and people" and issued a seal with the inscription, "restoration of the Roman empire."

In May 1666 Wren submitted his report and designs (in the All Souls collection), for this work; the old cathedral was in a very ruinous state, and Wren proposed to remodel the greater part, as he said, "after a good Roman manner," and not, "to follow the Gothick Rudeness of the old Design."

Wren was an enthusiastic admirer of Bernini's designs, and visited Paris in 1665 in order to see him and his proposed scheme for the rebuilding of the Louvre.

He then followed the fortunes of his friend Maurice, the new elector of Saxony, deserted Charles, and joined the league which proposed to overthrow the emperor by an alliance with Henry II.

The undertaking was proposed by the French A merica.