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See also:FOUNDATION (See also:Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found) , the
See also:act of See also:building, constituting or instituting on a permanent basis; especially the establishing of any institution by endowing or providing it with funds for its continual See also:maintenance. The word is thus applied also to the institutions so established, such as a See also:college, monastery or See also:hospital; and the terms " on the foundation," or " foundationer," are used of members of such a college or society who enjoy, as See also:fellows, scholars, &c., the benefits of the endowment. Formerly " foundation " also meant the See also:charter or See also:incorporation of any such institution or society, and
it is still applied to the funds used for the endowment of such institutions.
The terms " old foundation " and " new foundation " used in connexion with the organizing of See also:English See also:cathedral chapters have no reference to the See also:age of the cathedrals. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the See also:Reformation under See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII. the old college chapters were See also:left unchanged, and are referred to as the " old See also:foundations," but the monastic chapters were all suppressed, consequently new chapters had to be formed for their cathedrals and these constitute the " new foundations."
" Foundation " also means the See also:base (natural or artificial) on which any erection is built up; generally made below the level of the ground (see FOUNDATIONS below). A foundation-See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone is one of the stones at the base of a building, generally a corner-stone, frequently laid with a public ceremony to celebrate the commencement of the building. The See also:term is also applied to the ground-See also:work of any structure, such as, in See also:dress-making, the underskirt over which the real skirt is hung, any material used for stiffening purposes, as " foundation See also:muslin or See also:net." In See also:knitting or crochet the first stitches on to which all the See also:rest are worked are called the " foundation See also:chain." In See also:gem-cutting the " foundation-square " is the first of eight squares See also:round the edges of a brilliant made in See also:bevel planes and from which the angles are all removed to See also:form three-corner facets.
End of Article: FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)
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