Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing to founder, go lame, or be disabled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up.
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- adjective archaic Difficult to
travel ; likely totrip one up.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Roads, where a Wheel had never rolled from the Creation, were miry and founderous, incumbered with long Sloughs of Water.
John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961
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In fact, the longer I considered our position -- and as we pounded along, now splashing through a founderous hollow, now stumbling as we wound over a stony shoulder, I had ample time to reflect upon it -- the greater seemed the difficulties before us.
A Gentleman of France Stanley John Weyman 1891
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The founderous condition of the whole region had made every movement slow, and in the same note to Thomas, Sherman had summed it up in the two words: "Roads terrific."
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 Jacob Dolson Cox 1864
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I have travelled through the negotiation, -- and a sad, founderous road it is.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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