单词 | founding |
释义 | foundingadj. Associated with or marking the establishment of (something specified); that originated or created. Spec. founding father (frequently with capital initials), an American statesman of the Revolutionary period, esp. a member of the American Constitutional Convention of 1787; also transferred; founding member = founder member n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [adjective] > founding or instituting institutional1617 institutive1628 fundatory1636 instituting1643 founding1903 the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding > one who or that which founds or establishes aginnera1300 founder1340 grounder14.. foundatorc1425 stablement1481 stablisher1535 institutera1538 patriarcha1538 institutor1546 erector1548 inventor1548 fundatrix1549 upsetter1581 establishera1600 co-founder1605 co-foundress1631 planter1632 institutive1644 instaurator1660 institutrix1706 institutress1788 godfather1830 founding father1903 founder member1909 society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > statesman of revolutionary period founding father1903 1903 Westm. Gaz. 17 Nov. 10/1 Founding members are now being elected for the Ladies' Military and Naval Club. 1941 K. B. Umbriet (title) Founding fathers: men who shaped our tradition. 1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 8 Oct. 5/1 The Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference was formed. Many of the ‘founding-fathers’ of the conference were Quakers. 1957 R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon viii. 21 The invitation to the founding Congress of the Comintern. 1958 C. Baker Friend in Power i. 14 The Founding Fathers, eternized in dark oils, looked benignly down from the white and gold walls. 1959 Ann. Reg. 1958 180 Article 4 provided that the control commission should consist of seven members, one representative each from the three founding nuclear Powers [etc.]. 1959 Listener 5 Mar. 419/2 It is possible, too, that some of the founding families [in Tarentum] may have enjoyed political privileges. 1961 Listener 7 Sept. 336/1 Sociologists tend to accept the distinction stressed by their Founding Father, Max Weber, between fact and value. 1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. v/1 One third of Canadians are not of the founding races. 1967 Observer 15 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 44/2 It was with abuses of this sort..in mind that Lord Keynes and the founding fathers of the new regime at Covent Garden set to work in 1945. 1969 P. A. Robinson Sexual Radicals (1970) ii. 84 Roheim..rejected the naïve attempts of the founding fathers to explain culture in terms of a simple-minded rationalistic psychology. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019). > as lemmasˈfounding ˈfounding n. (a) setting forth, faring, etc.; (b) trial, temptation. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [noun] > temptation foundingOE flattering?c1225 tempting1303 temptation1340 impugnation1398 fanda1400 triala1557 attempt1611 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > [noun] > setting out foundingOE partingc1300 outgoing?c1335 buskinga1400 way-gangingc1485 profectiona1538 departure1540 waygoinga1600 way-ganga1628 upcoming1654 outsettinga1698 setting-out1711 OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1106 Forþam þe he nolde on his fundunge ofer sæ hired healdan. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 67 Ne led us noht in to costnunga, þet is an cun [printed cum] of fun~dunga. a1400–50 Alexander 4154 Þe writhe of þe wale god I wate on vs liȝtis For oure founding ouire his forbod so ferre to þe est. c1450 Guy Warw. (C) 4486 He was tryste in all fowndynge. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 87 Þe createris of God are maad in to hate, & foundingis [Vulg. Sap. xiv. 11 in tentationem] to þe soul of men. ˈfounding ˈfounding n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding fasteningeOE stablishinga1300 groundingc1380 stablingc1380 ordinancec1384 establishingc1400 foundationc1400 fundament1440 stablishment1444 institutionc1460 upsetting1470 erection1508 instituting1534 foundingc1540 erecting1553 constitution1582 establishment1596 plantation1605 instauration1614 institute1641 bottoming1642 ordaining1643 settlement1646 planting1702 incardination1897 the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > provision of means of support or livelihood > action of maintaininga1387 finding1389 supporting1431 founding1697 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy v. (heading) Of the Foundyng of New Troye. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 41 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Some twenty five yeeres before the founding of Armagh. 1682 A. Wood Life 20 Mar. The vice-chancellor asked ‘whether they denied the founding of the lecture itself, or the conditions?’ 1697 Conf. at Lambeth in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 40 Particularly, the word founding, which is always the Law Word for a perpetual fund of maintenance, is always put into these Revenues. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 115 When first the question rose About the founding of a Table Round. 1889 Athenæum 9 Feb. 178/2 [He dies] a ‘Poor Brother’ in the hospital of his own founding. ˈfounding ˈfounding n. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > founding or casting yotinga1382 castinga1398 yote1474 found1540 foundry1601 casta1616 foundinga1657 font1754 society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with glass > [noun] > specific processes annealing1662 snip-work1703 founding1783 glass-blowing1829 nibbling1850 lamp-working1925 a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 156 The magnificent Acts [read Arts] of Statuarie, Founding, Mowlding. 1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. II. iii. 50 Ship-building, and the founding of iron cannon, were the sole [arts] in which the English excelled. 1783 J. Wedgwood in Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 320 The fonding heat of the glass furnaces..was..114° for flint-glass. 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 908 The founding-pots are filled up with these blocks of frit. 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) I. 917 These three stages are called the first, second, and third fusion or founding. < adj.1903 as lemmas |
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