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fundament

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈfʌn.də.mənt/Part of speech nounSorted adefmnntuStarts with FEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. lowest support of a structure

Word origin

From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the bottom, to found”). Doublet of fondamento.

Used in a sentence

  • It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
  • ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck […]
  • Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.

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