'Founded' definitions:
Definition of 'Founded'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Founded'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --Matt. vii. 25. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. --Milton.
- Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See Predicate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'founded'
From: GCIDE
- founded \founded\ adj. based; -- often used as combining terms; as, well-founded suspicions.
- Syn: based. [WordNet 1.5]