Obs. Also -atour, Sc. fundatour. [ad. L. fundātor, agent-n. f. fundāre, refashioned after FOUND v.2] = FOUNDER sb.2
c. 1425. Found. St. Bartholomew’s (E.E.T.S.), 19. And with ofte visitations solempne laude yeldid to God, with the foundatoure.
1549. Compl. Scot., xv. 128. Lauberaris of the grond quhilkis var fundatouris of al there triumphand prosperite.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy. Turkie, IV. xxiv. 140. About Propontide, Praside, Terta, Penetropolis: at the foot of the mount Rhodope, and afterwards of his foundator Philippopoli.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 324. The Abbay of S. Androis not lychtlie: quhairof he is namet fundatour.
