Obs. [app. a. F. foncer, f. OF. fonz: see prec.] a. In passive: ? To have one’s attention fixed upon. b. intr. To come down with force upon.

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1430.  Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy, V. xxxvi.

        For by the worke of this sorceresse
I was so founced upon her fayrenesse;
That fynally thus with me it stode,
That all a yeare I with her abode,
And paynly had power none nor myght,
For to deparie neyther daye nor night.

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1530.  Palsgr., 557/2. I fownce (Lyd[gate]), I dent a thing. Je fonce. This terme is nat yet in comen use.

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1565.  Jewel, Def. Apol. (1611), 645. Yet is his soule broken, and crushed with the beetle of the whole earth, that founceth downe vpon it.

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