set forward
verb1
To put or carry (something) forward.
2
To help or assist (a person, project etc.); to promote.
3
To propose, suggest (an opinion, theory etc.).
- God endued them with a mind conformable, and subordinate to that of Moses, that they might Prophecy, that is to say, speak to the people in Gods name, in such manner, as to set forward (as Ministers of Moses, and by his authority) such doctrine as was agreeable to Moses his doctrine.1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
4
To set off, set forth; to start.
- We promised that we would, and he set forwards on his Journey to Town.1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia:
- Synonyms
- set forth