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King James Dictionary [1]
Found, pret. and pp. of find.
I am found of them that sought me not. Isaiah 65 .
Found, 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. Matthew 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.
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.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) 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.
(2): ( imp. & p. p.) of Find
(3): imp. & p. p. of Find.
(4): ( v. i.) 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.
(5): ( v. t.) To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.
(6): ( n.) A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
