Definition of Founder

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

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
Barack Obama

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.
Arthur Rock

I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.
Arthur Rock

The theory of founder effects does not explain how novel features like plumage traits arise.
Peter R. Grant

I did not claim that speciation occurs only in founder populations.
Ernst Mayr

Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Karl Shapiro

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

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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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