found: imperfect or past participle of Find. transitive verb [imperfect or past participle Founded; present participle or verbal noun Founding.] [F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.]

To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast.

“Whereof to found their engines.” Milton.

Found noun A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.

Found transitive verb [imperfect or past participle Founded; present participle or verbal noun Founding.] [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See 1st Bottom, and cf. Founder, intransitive verb, Fund.]

1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly.

I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak.

A man that all his time
Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. Shak.

It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matt. vii. 25.

2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family.

There they shall found
Their government, and their great senate choose. Milton.

Syn. – To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See Predicate.