Found (?),
imp. & p. p. of Find.
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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.
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Found, n.
A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
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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 first 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.
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