fundament

'fʌndәmәnt3 senses · 69 ms

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noun/ˈfʌn.də.mənt//ˈfan.də.mənt/

1
Foundation.
2
The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
- 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 […]
3
The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.

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