Verb

(pos)

To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.

To pose a model for a picture.

Ask; set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.).

To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.).

* 2010 , Noam Chomsky, The Iranian threat , Z Magazine, vol 23, number 7:

Rather, they are concerned with the threat Iran poses to the region and the world.

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* 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:

The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.

Assume or maintain a pose; strike an attitude.

* Thackeray

He posed before her as a hero.

(obsolete) To interrogate; to question.

* Francis Bacon

She posed him and sifted him.

(obsolete) To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.

* Barrow

A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him.

Verb

(pos)

(obsolete) To ask (someone) questions; to interrogate.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke II:

And hit fortuned that after .iii. dayes, they founde hym in the temple sittinge in the middes of the doctours, both hearynge them, and posinge them.

to puzzle, non-plus, or embarrass with difficult questions.

To perplex or confuse (someone).

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To hold back, to restrain (someone or something).

* Proverbs i:15 .

Refrain thy foot from their path.

(reflexive, archaic) To show restraint; to hold oneself back.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts V:

And nowe I saye unto you: refrayne youreselves from these men, and let them alone [...].

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his reson aperceyueth it wel that it is synne / agayns the lawe of god / and yet his reson / refreyneth nat his foul delit or talent.

* Bible, Proverbs i. 15

Refrain thy foot from their path.

To stop oneself (from) some action or interference; to abstain.

* Bible, Acts v. 38

Refrain from these men, and let them alone.

* Sir Thomas Browne

They refrained therefrom [eating flesh] some time after.

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Who, requiring a remedy for his gout, received no other counsel than to refrain cold drink.