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they give of the urbanity and hofpitality of the Foulahs, 
nntft be gratified on finding that this nation was known 
and diftinguifiied from the reft of the Ethiopians at fore- 
mote a period of antiquity. 
FOULAN'GE SUR YONNE, a town of France, in 
the department of theYonne, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, In the diftridl of Auxerre, fituated on the Yonne: 
five leagues foutli of Auxerre, and two north of Clamecy. 
FOULA'ON, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Ardra. 
FOUL'DERING, part. adj. [foudroier , old Fr. to 
frighten.] Terrifying: 
Seem’d that lowde thunder with amazement great 
Did rend the ratt’ling fkyes with flames of fottldring heat. 
Spencer. 
FOUL'FACED, adj. Having an ugly or hateful vifage : 
If black fcandal, or foulfac'd reproach, 
Attend the fequel of your impofition, 
Your mere enforcement fhall acquittance me 
From all the impure blots and ftains thereof. Shakefpeare. 
FOUL'LY, adj. Filthily ; naftily; odioufly ; hatefully; 
fcandaloufly ; difgracefully ; fliamefully: 
We in the world’s wide mouth 
Live fcandaliz’d, and foully fpoken of. Shakefpeare. 
Not lawfully ; not fairly.—Thou play’dft mod foully for 
it, Shakefpeare. 
FOUL'MOUTHED, adj. Scurrilous; habituated to 
the ufe of opprobrious terms and epithets.—It was allow¬ 
ed by every body, that fo foulmouthed a witnefs never ap¬ 
peared in any caufe. Addifon. 
Now Tinging flirill, and fcolding oft between, 
Scolds anfwer fouhnouth'd fcolds; bad neighbourhood I 
ween. Pope. 
FOUL'NESS,y. The quality of being foul; filthinefs; 
naftinefs.—The ancients were wont to make garments 
that were not deftroyed but purified by fire ; and whereas 
the fpots orfoulnefs of other clothes are wafhed out, in 
thefe they were ufually burnt away. Wilkins.- —Pollution ; 
impurity.—There is not fo chafte a nation as this, nor fo 
free from all pollution or foulnefs: it is the virgin of the 
world. Bacon. 
It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulnefs, 
No unchafte afition, or difhonour’d ftep, 
That hath depriv’d me of your grace and favour. Shakefp. 
Hatefulnefs ; atrocioufnefs.—It is the wickednefs of a 
whole life, difcharging all its filth and foulnefs into this one 
quality, as into a great fink or common fewer. South. 
Conful, you are too mild : 
The foulnefs of fome fadts takes thence all mercy. B.Jonfon. 
Uglinefs; deformity.—He’s fallen in love with your foul, 
■nefs, and (lie’ll fall in love with my anger. ShakeJ'peare. 
The fury laid afide 
Her looks and limbs, and with new methods tried 
The j'oulnefs of th’ infernal form to hide. Dryden. 
Diftionefty ; want of candour.—Piety isoppofed to hypo- 
crify and infincerity, and all falfenefs or JoulneJ's of inten¬ 
tions. Hammond. 
FOULNESS', an ifland, with a church village, fepa- 
rated by a narrow channel, or arm ot the German Ocean, 
from the main land of England, and fouth-eaft part of the 
county of Eifex, about twelve miles in circumference : 
iix miles eaft from Rochford. 
FOULO'N (John Erard), a learned Jefuit of Liege, 
born in that city in 1609. He entered into the order in 
1625, and polfefling excellent talents, acquired the ap- 
plaufe and efteem of his fuperiors by his proficiency in the 
different branches of learning. Obferving that his qua¬ 
lifications peculiarly adapted him for the pulpit, they 
took care to inftrudl him in the requifite preparatory know- 
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ledge; and he diftinguifiied himfelf in the charadler of a 
public preacher for more than thirty years. He w’as fuc- 
ceffively appointed reftor of the colleges at Huy and Tour- 
nay, and died in the latter city in 1668. Betides feveral 
devotional, controverfial, and other fmaller pieces, he 
was the author of Commentarii Hiflorici & Morales ad Libras 
1 L 3 II. Machabasorum, additis liberioribus Excurfbus, in two 
vols. folio, 1660 and 1664; and Hifloria Leodienfis, per 
Epifcopontm & Principum Seriem digefa, ab origins Popnli 
ufque ad Ferdinands Bavari Tanpora , &c. three vols. folio, 
1735 and 1737. This work ferves to throw much light 
on the hiftory of the Low Countries, 
FOU'LOU-SOU'SOU, a town of Chinefe Tartary, on 
the Saghalien : nine miles north-weft of Telden. 
FOUL'SHAM, a fmall town in the county of Norfolk, 
with a weekly market on Tuefday : eleven miles north 
of Dereham, and hi north-north-eaft of London. 
FOUND, the preterite and participle paflive of find. — 
I am fought of them that afked not for me : I am found 
of them that fought me not. IfaiahXxw. 1. 
Authors now find, as once Achilles found. 
The whole is mortal if a part’s unfound. Young. 
To FOUND, v.a. [ fundare , Lat. fonder, Fr.] To lay 
the bafis of any building.-—It fell not; for it was j'ounded. 
upon a rock. McUth. —He hath founded it upon the feas, 
and eftablifiied it upon the floods. Pf. xxiv. 2.—-To 
build ; to raife : 
Thefe tunes of reafon are Amphion’s lyre, 
Wherewith he did the Theban city found. Davies. 
To eftablifh ; to eredt.—He, founding a library, gathered 
together the adts of the kings and prophets. 2 Mac. ii. 13. 
This alfo (hall they gain by their delay 
In the wide wildernefs; there they (hall found 
Their government, and their great fenate chufe. 
Through the twelve tribes, to rule by laws ordain’d. 
Milton. 
To give birth or original to; as, he founded an art; he 
founded a family.—To raife upon, as on a principle or 
ground.—A right to the ufe of the creatures is founded 
originally in the right a man has to fubfift.—Power, 
founded on contradf, can defcend only to him who has a 
right by that contradl. Locke. —To fix firm : 
Fleance is efcap’d. 
■—Then comes my fit again : I had elfe been perfedt, 
Whole is the marble, founded as the rock. Shakefpeare. 
To FOUND, v.n. [ fundere , Lat. fondre, Fr.] To form 
by melting and pouring into moulds ; to caft : 
A fecond multitude 
With wondrous art founded the tnafly ore, 
Severing each kind, leum’d the bullion drofs. Milton. 
FOUNDA'TION, f. \ foundation, Fr.] The bafis or 
lower parts of an edifice. —The ftatelinefs of houfes, the 
goodlinefs of trees, when we behold them, delighted) the 
eye; but that foundation which beareth up the one, that 
root which ininiftreth unto the other’s nouriihment, is in 
the bofom of the earth concealed. Hooker. 
I lay the deep foundations of a wall, 
And Enos, nam’d from me, the city call. Dryden. 
The adt of fixing the bafis: 
Ne’er to thefe chambers where the mighty reft, 
Since their foundation, came a nobler giteft. Tickle. 
The principles or ground on which any notion is railed.— 
If we give way to our paftions, we do but gratify our- 
felves for the prelent, in order to future difquiet; but if 
we refill and conquer them, we lay the J'oundation of per¬ 
petual peace in our minds. Tills (jin. —Original; rife.— 
Throughout the world, even from the firlt foundations 
thereof, all men have either been taken as lords or law¬ 
ful kings in their own houfes. Hooker. —A revenue fettled 
and eftablifiied (or any purpole, particularly charity.— 
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