fundament
Collocations
3ADJ.
own
FUNDAMENT + NOUN
beforehand
PREP.
up, with
Definitions
noun
Foundation.
The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
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 […]
The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
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Synonyms
noun — lowest support of a structure
- foundation
- base
- foot
- groundwork
- substructure
- understructure
noun — the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or
- basis
- base
- foundation
- groundwork
- cornerstone
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
4It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
WiktionaryANOTHER 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 […]
WiktionaryBathe 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.
Wiktionary"Where's Tom?" "Up his own fundament."
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