From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Founding}.] [F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.]
To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to
cast. "Whereof to found their engines." --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Founding}.] [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See
1st {Bottom}, and cf. {Founder}, v. i., {Fund}.]
1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something
solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis,
literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
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I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak.
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A man that all his time
Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak.
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It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --Matt.
vii. 25.
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2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or
building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to
begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to
found a family.
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There they shall found
Their government, and their great senate choose.
--Milton.
Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See
{Predicate}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Founding \Found"ing\, n.
The art of smelting and casting metals.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
founding
n 1: the act of starting something for the first time;
introducing something new; "she looked forward to her
initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new
scientific society" [syn: {initiation}, {founding},
{foundation}, {institution}, {origination}, {creation},
{innovation}, {introduction}, {instauration}]
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