单词 | founding member |
释义 | > as lemmasfounding member Associated with or marking the establishment of (something specified); that originated or created. Spec. founding father (frequently with capital initials), an American statesman of the Revolutionary period, esp. a member of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787; also transferred; founding member = founder member n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [adjective] > founding or instituting institutional1617 institutive1628 fundatory1636 instituting1643 founding1903 the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding > one who or that which founds or establishes aginnera1300 founder1340 grounder14.. foundatorc1425 stablement1481 stablisher1535 institutera1538 patriarcha1538 institutor1546 erector1548 inventor1548 fundatrix1549 upsetter1581 establishera1600 co-founder1605 co-foundress1631 planter1632 institutive1644 instaurator1660 institutrix1706 institutress1788 godfather1830 founding father1903 founder member1909 society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > statesman of revolutionary period founding father1903 1903 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 10/1 Founding members are now being elected for the Ladies' Military and Naval Club. 1941 K. B. Umbriet (title) Founding fathers: men who shaped our tradition. 1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 8 Oct. 5/1 The Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference was formed. Many of the ‘founding-fathers’ of the conference were Quakers. 1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon viii. 21 The invitation to the founding Congress of the Comintern. 1958 C. Baker Friend in Power i. 14 The Founding Fathers, eternized in dark oils, looked benignly down from the white and gold walls. 1959 Ann. Reg. 1958 180 Article 4 provided that the control commission should consist of seven members, one representative each from the three founding nuclear Powers [etc.]. 1959 Listener 5 Mar. 419/2 It is possible, too, that some of the founding families [in Tarentum] may have enjoyed political privileges. 1961 Listener 7 Sept. 336/1 Sociologists tend to accept the distinction stressed by their Founding Father, Max Weber, between fact and value. 1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. v/1 One third of Canadians are not of the founding races. 1967 Observer 15 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 44/2 It was with abuses of this sort..in mind that Lord Keynes and the founding fathers of the new regime at Covent Garden set to work in 1945. 1969 P. A. Robinson Sexual Radicals (1970) ii. 84 Roheim..rejected the naïve attempts of the founding fathers to explain culture in terms of a simple-minded rationalistic psychology. < as lemmas |
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