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Definition of Set forth
1. Verb. State. "Set forth one's reasons"
Generic synonyms: Dilate, Elaborate, Enlarge, Expand, Expatiate, Exposit, Expound, Flesh Out, Lucubrate
Specialized synonyms: Depict, Describe, Draw, Premise
Derivative terms: Exposition
2. Verb. Leave. "These cars won't set forth "; "The family took off for Florida"
Generic synonyms: Go Away, Go Forth, Leave
Specialized synonyms: Lift Off, Take Off, Roar Off, Blaze, Blaze Out, Sally Forth, Sally Out
Derivative terms: Departer, Departure, Departure, Parting, Takeoff, Takeoff
Also: Part With
Definition of Set forth
1. Verb. (transitive) To state; describe; give an account of. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To present for consideration; to propose. ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) To begin a journey or expedition. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To start. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Set Forth
Literary usage of Set forth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of A. Conan Doyle by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"CHAPTER XIII HOW THE WHITE COMPANY set forth TO THE WARS ST. LUKE'S day had come
and had gone, and it was in the season of Martinmas, when the oxen are ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... were correctly set forth. Dioptrics, being more difficult, wae developed less
rapidly. Ptolemy already knew that the angle of refraction is not ..."
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