KJV Dictionary Definition: found

found

FOUND, pret. and pp. of find.

I am found of them that sought me not. Is. 65.

FOUND, v.t. 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. Matt. 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, v.t. 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.

founded

FOUND'ED, pp. Set; fixed; established on a basis; begun and built.