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n.
A member of one of the four sects of the Sunnites, or Orthodox Mohammedans; -- so called from its founder, Mohammed al-Shafei.
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Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
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One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
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The system of doctrines and church polity inculcated by John Wesley (b. 1703; d. 1791), the founder of the religious sect called Methodist; Methodism. See Methodist, n., 2.
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The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.
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Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.
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An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
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One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland.
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v. i.
To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.
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One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
v. t.
To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
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An act of a corporation or of its founder, intended as a permanent rule or law; as, the statutes of a university.
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That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.
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One of a school of Judaizing Gnostics in the second century; -- so called from Valentinus, the founder.
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Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology.
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One of a small denomination of Christians, so called from Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.
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An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
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