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Webster 1913 Edition


Found

Found

,
imp.
&
p.
p.
of
Find
.

Found

,
Verb.
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.

Found

,
Noun.
A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.

Found

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Founded
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Founding
.]
[F.
fonder
, L.
fundare
, fr.
fundus
bottom. See 1st
Bottom
, and cf.
Founder
,
Verb.
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.
I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble,
founded
as the rock.
Shakespeare
A man that all his time
Hath
founded
his good fortunes on your love.
Shakespeare
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.
Syn. – To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See
Predicate
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Found

FOUND

, pret. and pp. of find.
I am found of them that sought me not. Is. 65.

FOUND

,
Verb.
T.
[L. fundo, fundare; Heb. to build, that is, to set, found, erect.]
1.
To lay the basis of any thing; to set, or place, as on something solid for support.
It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matt. 7.
2.
To begin and build; to lay the foundation, and raise a superstructure; as, to found a city.
3.
To set or place; to establish, as on something solid or durable; as, to found a government on principles of liberty.
4.
To begin; to form or lay the basis; as, to found a college or a library. Sometimes to endow is equivalent to found.
5.
To give birth to; to originate; as, to found an art or a family.
6.
To set; to place; to establish on a basis. Christianity is founded on the rock of ages. Dominion is sometimes founded on conquest; sometimes on choice or voluntary consent.
Power, founded on contract, can descend only to him who has right by that contract.
7.
To fix firmly.
I had else been perfect, whole as the marble, founded as the rock.

FOUND

,
Verb.
T.
[L. fundo, fudi, fusum.]
To cast; to form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mold.
[This verb is seldom used, but the derivative foundry is in common use. for found we use cast.]

Definition 2024


found

found

See also: Found.

English

Noun

found

  1. Food and lodging, board.
    • 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:
      I'll only give you the usual payment--say five hundred dollars a year, and found." / "And--what?" / "Found--that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also.

Verb

found

  1. simple past tense and past participle of find
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman founder (French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Confer with fund.

Verb

found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded)

  1. To begin building.
  2. To start some type of organization or company.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
      “… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. 

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References

  • Oxford Online Dictionary, found
  • WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton University

Etymology 3

Borrowing from Middle French fondre, from Latin fundere.

Verb

found (third-person singular simple present founds, present participle founding, simple past and past participle founded)

  1. (transitive) To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
  2. (transitive) To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
    • Milton
      Whereof to found their engines.
Related terms
Translations

Etymology 4

Noun

found (plural founds)

  1. A thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.

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