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Founding   /fˈaʊndɪŋ/   Listen
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Found  v. t.  (past & past part. founded; pres. part. founding)  To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. "Whereof to found their engines."



Found  v. t.  (past & past part. founded; pres. part. founding)  
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." "A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love." "It fell not, for it was founded on a rock."
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."
Synonyms: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See Predicate.



noun
Founding  n.  The art of smelting and casting metals.






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"Founding" Quotes from Famous Books



... be a ship of war before she had been formally condemned in a prize court; or whether she must not be held to be still a prize, and, as such, prohibited from entering our ports. The Acting Attorney-General, founding his opinion on Earl Russell's despatch to your Grace, of the 31st January, 1862, and on "Wheaton's International Law," states in substance that it was open to Captain Semmes to convert this vessel into a ship of ...
— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes

... done, but there were thirty-three years spent on earth, and there were the laborious ministry, the sufferings, and the death. That was not all. Still more was done. The Son of God ascended into Heaven after having spent forty days on earth after His resurrection, founding and framing His Church. Then He sent the Holy Ghost down on the Church He had made. Still all is not done. The Church has to battle with the world, to endure persecution, the blood of martyrs has ...
— The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent • S. Baring-Gould

... convinced how highly necessary that laborious deduction of the categories was, and how fruitful for theology and morals. For if, on the one hand, we place them in pure understanding, it is by this deduction alone that we can be prevented from regarding them, with Plato, as innate, and founding on them extravagant pretensions to theories of the supersensible, to which we can see no end, and by which we should make theology a magic lantern of chimeras; on the other hand, if we regard them as acquired, this deduction saves us from restricting, ...
— The Critique of Practical Reason • Immanuel Kant

... reorganize night-watch, 38; founds the Union Fire Company, 39; begins organization of military force against French, 39; takes a partner, 39; enters public life, 40; appointed to various offices and elected burgess, 40; commissioner to treat with Indians, 40; assists Dr. Bond in founding hospital, 41; induces legislature to make a contingent grant, 42; his pride over this device, 42; improves cleaning and lighting of streets, 42; appointed head of postal system, his successful management of it, 43; receives ...
— Benjamin Franklin • John Torrey Morse, Jr.

... more conspicuous in contributing to the founding of the Reform Party than was William Lyon Mackenzie, whose personality yet remains to be considered. Owing in some measure to the force of circumstances, but chiefly to his own energy, impulsiveness and love of ...
— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent


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