ppl. a. [f. FOUNDER v. + -ED1.]
† 1. Undermined, made to give way. Obs.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1840), I. 119. As for the fourth, thriftless, I omit it, because it sinks of itself, as a superstructure on a foundered and failing foundation.
2. Of a horse: Affected with founder; lamed.
1543. trans. Act 20 Rich. II., c. 5. The sayde horses become al lost and foundred [original AF. foundez].
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., I. i. Your palmes (Jupiter knowes) they are as tender as the foot of a foundred nagge.
1640. Fuller, Joseph’s Party-coloured Coat, 1 Cor. xi. (1867), 81. So our judgment will be partial and favourable to us, as foundered feet will never tread hard.
1726. Swift, Corr., Wks. 1841, II. 596. A rascally groom shall gallop a foundered horse ten miles upon a causeway and get home safe.
1860. Blackmore, Lorna D., xxiii. Your horse was greatly foundered, sir, and is hardly fit for the road to-day.
fig. 1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., II. i. 51. He not onely hears but examines his Client, and pincheth the cause, where he fears it is foundred.
1822. Byron, Vis. Judg., xci.
| And Michael rose ere he could get a word | |
| Of all his founder’d verses under way. |
3. Of a vessel: Sunk, wrecked.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Founder’d, Ship at Sea, that sprung a Leak and Sunk downright.
1762–9. Falconer, Shipwr., III. 634.
| Across the founder’d deck o’erwhelming roar, | |
| And foaming, swelling, bound upon the shore. |
