Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bottoming"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bottom \Bot"tom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bottomed} (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Bottoming}.]
1. To found or build upon; to fix upon as a support; --
followed by on or upon.
Action is supposed to be bottomed upon principle.
--Atterbury.
Those false and deceiving grounds upon which many
bottom their eternal state]. --South.
2. To furnish with a bottom; as, to bottom a chair.
3. To reach or get to the bottom of. --Smiles.
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