to start a journey; to present sth or make it known
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to start a journey
So, she put on about a half a pound of makeup, fixed it up with a veil and set forth to see DeMille in person.
I must set forth into waters.
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to present sth or make it known
We set forth our arguments...
Definitions from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 9th edition