What is "founded"

Usage examples of "founded".

The answer is that while Matter can not be any of the things which are founded upon it, it may quite well be something else, admitting that all existences are not rooted in Matter.

Two bills founded upon these propositions were introduced, and both sides of the house admitting the justice of the measures seemed to agree in the propriety of adopting them.

Solitude had killed every power in her save vanity, and the form her vanity took was peculiarly irritating to her husband, and in a lesser degree to her daughter, for neither the Elder nor Loo would have founded self-esteem on adventitious advantages of upbringing.

At the east end of the south aisle of the choir stood the altar of All Saints, founded by Bowet.

Rosicrucian society was the Order of the Gold and Rosy Cross, founded in Germany in 1710 by Sigmund Richter, the primary purpose of which was alchemical research.

In these letters he founded his allegation, that Ireland had not her fair proportion of members of the house of commons, on this data.

All civilized nations are political nations, and are founded in the fact, not on rights antecedent to the fact.

That was before she founded the Church of the Apocrypha, before she had taken the name Sister Elena Marie.

Greek school of philosophy founded by Aristippus of Cyrene, who considered individual sensual pleasure the greatest good.

Here, at the Ashram, he had founded a community devoted to prayer, meditation, and spiritual growth.

Right and truth and justice, in their relation to human affairs, are as asymptotes which, though continually drawing nearer and nearer to the curve, can never reach it but by a violation of all on which their own existence is founded.

Just as Stavrogin had inspired Kirillov with an atheistic humanism based on the supremacy of reason and the Man-God, so he has inspired Shatov, at the same time, with a Slavophilism founded on the very opposite principle.

Maiden Court had stood four-square to the wind since its first owner, a wild Norman nobleman, who had dug its first sod and had relished the battle to wrest its acres from the forest, had laid azide his battle dress and founded his family, and that was good enough for Harry.

He had felt instinctively that the Baptist had answers for him, and day by day he gained assurance that this hope was well founded.

There is a land encircled by lofty mountains, rich in sheep and in pasture, where Prometheus, son of Iapetus, begat goodly Deucalion, who first founded cities and reared temples to the immortal gods, and first ruled over men.