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Definition of Founds
1. found [v] - See also: found
Lexicographical Neighbors of Founds
Literary usage of Founds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1796)
"... only with an inclination, and under a ne- late founds. ... as to be fit to
frame articulate founds, which we call words. But this was not enough to ..."
2. A critical pronouncing dictionary and expositor of the English languageby John Walker by John Walker (1797)
"1 8 29 31 62 69 72 93 105 161 171 180 189 196 Of the diphthongs AE, AI, АО, and
all the rejl in their alphabetical order' - - .199 Of the founds of the ..."
3. A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and ...by Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan (1790)
"All compound founds mould be marked only by fuch characters, ... founds, upon
their being pronounced according to their names in the alphabet. ..."
4. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"He founds Marmoutier, and inhabits there one of the cells. ... The king Sigismund
founds in Valais, Agaune, which becomes the monastic metropolis of the ..."
5. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"For hieroglyphics, as words, feem to have flood for founds, and founds ...
the meaning of this found ; as words are only founds, which founds we agree ..."
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