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Dumfounding Dumfound Dum"found`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dumfounded; p. pr.
& vb. n. Dumfounding.]
To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment. [Written also
dumbfound.] --Spectator.
Founding Founding Found"ing, n.
The art of smelting and casting metals.
Founding 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.
Founding 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.
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 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. --Milton.
Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See
Predicate.
