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founded, ppl. a.|ˈfaʊndɪd|
[f. found v.2]
1. Based, having a (specified) base or ground (with qualifying adverb). † Also without adv. = ‘well founded’, well grounded, etc. (obs.).
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 22 Then comes my Fit againe. I had else beene perfect, Whole as the Marble, founded as the Rocke. 1671Milton Samson 1504 Thy hopes are not ill founded. 1771Junius Lett. lv. 291, I mean..of such charges..to show that they are not founded. 1774tr. Helvetius' Child of Nature I. 132 A young woman of your prudence must be founded in her behaviour. 1780Burke Sp. at Bristol Wks. III. 398 Supply them with just and founded motives to disaffection. 1792Anecd. W. Pitt III. xliii. 152 If Ministers are founded in saying there is no sort of treaty with France. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 248 These complaints were in many cases well founded.
2. Endowed, ‘on the foundation’. rare.
1895J. M. Bulloch Hist. Aberdeen Univ. 99 The greater part of the founded members had been ‘quyte abolisched’. |