Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Found

Found , imperfect and past participle

imp. & past participle of Find.

Found , transitive verb

[French fondre, Latin 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

[French fonder, Latin fundare, from fundus bottom. See 1st Bottom, and compare Founder, v. i., 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. — Shakespeare
A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. — Shakespeare
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