1. The point was not proved.
2. Verdict: “Not proven.” Proven is a Scotch legal term, wrongly supposed by some persons to be preferable to proved out of the court-room.
Purpose, propose.
1. One can’t propose unless he proposes something to somebody.
2. One can purpose to do a thing, without proposing it to any one.
How do both these words contain the idea of placing?
Sit, set.
The chief errors in the use of sit and set are two. Some people insist on saying “setting hen” for “sitting hen,” and “the coat sets well” for “sits well.” A few say, “Sit yourself down,” for the somewhat old-fashioned “sit you down” (where the you is nominative) or for “set yourself down.” Similarly this error has been known to occur—“he sat the basket of eggs down.”