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Definition of Foundation stone
1. Noun. A stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foundation Stone
Literary usage of Foundation stone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1902)
"We have two accounts of the laying of the foundation- stone, which took place on
... The foundation-stone was of white marble, about four palms in length, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is not easy to assign a date to the beginning of this practice of blessing
the foundation stone. An interesting fragment of evidence is, however, ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The foundation-stone of a new wing of the building of the museum was laid, the
funds for this enlargement having been supplied by the German Government The ..."
4. History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1879)
"... Rationalism—The Two Peasants' Sons-Eck and Luther begin—The Head of the
Church-Primacy of Rome—Equality of Bishops—Peter the Foundation-stone—Christ the ..."
5. A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs: Derived Entirely from the Monuments by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Henry Danby Seymour (1881)
"Then I came forward, yes I, to complete the business of the laying of the
foundation- stone, because [before] him. He went out, and the work of the first ..."
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