Definition of founder

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Founder (v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.

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Founder :: Founder (n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows..
Donative :: Donative (n.) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3..
Refounder :: Refounder (n.) One who refounds.
Founder :: Founder (n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types..
Mennonite :: Mennonite (n.) One of a small denomination of Christians, so called from Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service..
Wesleyanism :: Wesleyanism (n.) The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2..
Founderous :: Founderous (a.) Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road..
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel..
Founder :: Founder (v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.
Buddha :: Buddha (n.) The title of an incarnation of self-abnegation, virtue, and wisdom, or a deified religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism..
Bulge :: Bulge (v. i.) To bilge, as a ship; to founder..
Thomsonianism :: Thomsonianism (n.) An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts..
Swampy :: Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck..
Barrowist :: Barrowist (n.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953..
Statute :: Statute (a.) An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university..
Wolffian :: Wolffian (a.) Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology..
Laminitis :: Laminitis (n.) Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.
Foundered :: Foundered (imp. & p. p.) of Founde.
Encenia :: Encenia (n. pl.) A festival commemorative of the founding of a city or the consecration of a church; also, the ceremonies (as at Oxford and Cambridge, England) commemorative of founders or benefactors..
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