Founding
['faʊndɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Found
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Found
(n.) The art of smelting and casting metals.
Typist: Lolita
Examples
- Pure siliceous sands are very valuable for the manufacture of glass, for making mortar, filters, ameliorating dense clay soils, for making molds in founding and for many other purposes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They may be the happiest of men, but our principal aim in founding the State was not to make them happy. Plato. The Republic.
- In _metal founding_ the employment of chill moulds is an important step. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And will not the city, which you are founding, be an Hellenic city? Plato. The Republic.
- Not in the least: you might expiate your enjoyment of them by founding a hospital. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Romulus was here before he built Rome, and thought something of founding a city on this spot, but gave up the idea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There is, then, no pretext of reason for founding the one upon the other; while each of them has a foundation peculiar to itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- At the same time he became enthusiastic over the founding of a new society of artists, and was chosen the first president of the National Academy of Design. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Typist: Margery