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- verb Obsolete spelling of
found .; Simple past tense and past participle offind .
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Examples
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Whanne yn employe yn the housholde of the Countesse of Vlster, ich founde that ich provede merveilous skilful at walknge on myn hondes with myn legges yn the ayr.
Crackpot Medieval "Facts" Richard Nokes 2006
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And when it came to passe, that her frends founde her out and would have prossekutid your Honner, your
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Lyk, ich am a woman of businesse, ich am an actresse, ich do inspyre men of chivalrie to noble deedes, ich do founde chantries ful of preestes who praye for the soule of my chihuahua who of late did perisshe.
A more "interesting" meme than usual... intertext 2006
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Bot because I founde them in a merrie humour, I said, if I did not come to heare
Lay Morals 2005
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Yf thei be founde withoute the halowed grounde, it is lawfull for any manne to slea them.
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The mooste aunciente and eldest father that can be founde in the whole Countrie, is made their Lorde and Kyng.
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And he had also in that place, the faireste zonge Damyseles, that myghte ben founde undir the age of 15 zere, and the faireste zonge striplynges, that men myghte gete of that same age: and alle thei weren clothed in clothes of gold fully richely: and he seyde, that tho weren aungeles.
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That, is to say spende awaie in ydlenes and rest: for that on the seuenth daye, they founde reste of theyr wandering, and misery.
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And the kyng of that contrey hath als many wyfes as he wole; for he makethe serche alle the contree, to geten him the fairest maydens that may ben founde, and makethe hem to ben broughte before him; and he takethe on o nyght, and another another nyght, and so forthe contynuelle sewyng; so that he hath a 1000 wyfes or mo.
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And so fer I have gon more forthe in tho contrees, that I have founde that sterre more highe; so that toward the highe Lybye, it is 18 degrees of heghte, and certeyn minutes (of the whiche, 60 minutes maken a degree).
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