Definition of Founder

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Founder

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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Founder Quotations

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

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Hu Shih

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
Frederick William Faber

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

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus

And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can.
Sanjay Kumar

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.
Ron Kind

I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.
King Hussein I

Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
Robert Shea

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
Richard Le Gallienne

Founder Translations

founder in French is fondateur
founder in Italian is costitutore, fondatore
founder in Latin is creator, fundator
founder in Spanish is fundador
founder in Swedish is gjutare, grundare

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