3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
founded
adj : having a basis; often used as combining terms; "a soundly
based argument"; "well-founded suspicions" [syn: {based}]