▪ I. † founce, n. Obs.
Also founs.
[AF. founz = OF. fonz, funz (mod.Fr. fonds):—popular L. *fundus neut. = class. L. fundus masc.]
The bottom of anything.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 113 In þe founce þer stonden stonez stepe. a 1400–50 Alexander 4130 Þai flee as fast in-to flode & to þe founce plangid. c 1500 Melusine xxiv. 172 The founs of the valey. |
▪ II. † founce, v. Obs.
[app. a. F. foncer, f. OF. fonz: see prec.]
a. In pass.: ? To have one's attention fixed upon. b. intr. To come down with force upon.
| 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy v. xxxvi, By the power of this sorceresse I was so founced upon her fayrenesse; That [etc.]. 1530 Palsgr. 557/2, I fownce (Lyd[gate]), I dent a thing. Je fonce. This terme is nat yet in comen use. 1565 Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 645 Yet is his soule..crushed with the beetle of the whole earth, that founceth downe vpon it. |