set forward

present singular third person sets forward · participle present setting forward · alternative set forwards

1. To put or carry (something) forward.First known use 15th c.
2. To help or assist (a person, project etc.); to promote.First known use 16th c.
3. To propose, suggest (an opinion, theory etc.).First known use 16th c.

   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. intransitiveTo set off, set forth; to start.First known use 16th c.

   We promised that we would, and he set forwards on his Journey to Town.

   1790, Jane Austen, “Love and Freindship”, in Juvenilia