founder

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1. founder - Noun

2. founder - Adjective

3. founder - Verb

Meaning

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.

To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.

To fail; to miscarry.

To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.

An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.

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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn. Charles de Lint

Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila. Douglas Adams

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society. Edmund Burke

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. Ernst Mayr

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