the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Proposition
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
(2):
(n.) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
(3):
(n.) A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed.
(4):
(n.) That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.
(5):
(n.) A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.
(6):
(n.) The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
(7):
(n.) A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Proposition'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/proposition.html. 1828.
