set forth

Verb

1. To state; describe; give an account of.
   • Where any judge falls under any of the challengeable grounds set forth in section 13, the judge may state the grounds to the Court and remove himself from the case concerned.
   • At Delphi every eighth year a sacred drama or miracle-play was acted which drew crowds of spectators from all parts of Greece. It set forth the slaying of the Dragon by Apollo. - 1906, James George Frazer, Adonis,...
2. To present for consideration; to propose.
3. To begin a journey or expedition.
   • Columbus set forth with three small ships.
   • Next, the Chinese text says that they set forth from the district of Lo-lang, which is situated not in Leao-tung, but in Corea, and of which the capital is the present city of Pʽing-jang (in d’Auville’s map, Ping-yang),...
4. To start.