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Fundament

//ˈfʌn.də.mənt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Foundation.
  2. 2
    lowest support of a structure wordnet
  3. 3
    The bottom; the buttocks or anus.

    "It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces."

  4. 4
    the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on wordnet
  5. 5
    The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
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  1. 6
    the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“I lay the bottom, I found”). Doublet of fondamento.

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