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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.0.48 [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.0.48 [gcide]:
Founding \Found"ing\, noun The art of smelting and casting metals.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
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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