Definition of "set forth"

set forth

verb
third-person singular simple present sets forth, present participle setting forth, simple past and past participle set forth
1. (transitive) To state; describe; give an account of.
  Quotations
  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, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 240
2. (transitive) To present for consideration; to propose.
3. (intransitive) To begin a journey or expedition.
  Quotations
  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), situated upon the northern bank of the Ta-tʽung-kiang, or Pʽai-shue, a river of the province of Pʽing-ngan, which, in great part, in the time of the dynasty of Han, formed the district of Lo-lang.
  1885, Edward P. Vining, quoting J. Klaproth, “Researches regarding the Country of Fu-sang, mentioned in Chinese Books, and erroneously supposed to be a Part of America”, in An Inglorious Columbus: or, Evidence that Hwui Shǎn and a Party of Buddhist Monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the Fifth Century, A.D.‎, D. Appleton and Company, page 43
4. (intransitive) To start.