fundament

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FUND'AMENT, noun [Latin fundamentum, from fundo, to set.] 1. The seat; the lower part of the body or of the intestinum rectum. 2. Foundation. [Not in use.]
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