refounder
(riːˈfaʊndə(r))
[f. refound v.1 + -er1.]
One who refounds.
| 1528 in Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden) 2 Alen Niger, summe tyme erele of Richemound, and our secounde re⁓founder. 1782 Pennant Journ. Chest. to Lond. 57 This Enysan..was the true re-founder [of Stone Priory]. 1824 Southey Bk. of Ch. (1841) 408 That Church, and the Queen, its refounder, are clear of persecution, as regards the Romanists. 1865 Masson Rec. Brit. Philos. 95 He was..the refounder of Transcendentalism in modern Europe. |