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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.]

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