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What have they got you harnessed up like this for Then Alexis with difficulty found the English words to tell her how his leg had not set straight, had been re-broken and was now being forced into proper position It is like hell, Madame," he concluded with a trembling lip, then he drew a sharp breath, "But no, I forget, I am in the army.

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  1. transitive verb To establish or set up, especially with provision for continuing existence: The college was founded in 1872.
  2. transitive verb To establish the foundation or basis of; base: found a theory on firm evidence.
  3. Syntax Note
    Synonyms: found1, create, establish, institute, organize
    These verbs mean to bring something into existence and set it in operation: founded a colony; created a trust fund; establishing a business; instituted an annual benefit concert; organizing a field trip.
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  1. Middle English founden, from Old French fonder, from Latin fundāre, from fundus, bottom.
  2. Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English founden, from Old French fonder, French fonder = Provencal fondar = Spanish Portuguese fundar = Italian fondare = Middle Dutch fonderen = Middle Low German fundēren= Middle High German funden, fundieren, German fundieren = Danish fundere = Swedish fundera (Teutonic forms partly after F.), from Latin fundare, lay the bottom, keel, foundation of a thing, found, establish, from funlus bottom, base, foundation, akin to English bottom: see fund and bottom.
  2. from Old French fondre, French fondre = Provencal fondre = Spanish Portuguese fundir = Italian fondere, melt or cast, as metals, from Latin fundere, past participle fusus, pour, cast metals (see fuse), √*fud— Gothic (Moesogothic) giutan = Anglo-Saxon geótan, etc., pour (see gush, gut), akin to Greek χεῑν, pour (see chyle, chyme, etc.). Hence ult. (from Latin fundere) English font = fount, fuse, fusion, etc., affuse, effuse, infuse, perfuse, profuse, etc.
  3. from found, v.
  4. Origin obscure.
  5. Middle English founden, funden, from Anglo-Saxon fundian, hasten, from findan, past participle funden, find: see find.
 

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