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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.
FOUND, L. fundo, fudi, fusum.
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.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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