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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Found \Found\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Found \Found\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Founding}.] [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See 1st {Bottom}, and cf. {Founder}, verb (used without an object), {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.
I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak.
A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak.
It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --Matt. vii. 25.
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.
There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. --Milton.
Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See {Predicate}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
founded \founded\ adjective based; -- often used as combining terms; as, well-founded suspicions.
Syn: based. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
founded
adjective: having a basis; often used as combining terms; "a soundly based argument"; "well-founded suspicions" [syn: {based}]
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