[CO- 3 b.] One who unites in founding; a joint founder.
1605. Camden, Rem., Epitaphs, 52. Doctor Caius, a learned physition of Cambridge, and a Co-founder of Gunwell and Caius Colledge.
1679. Bp. of Hereford, College Jesuits at Come, 4. Xaverius was the Co-founder with Ignatius of the Jesuits Order.
1881. J. M. Anderson, in Cath. Presbyt., 21. Professors, co-founders, and provincial directors.
So Co-foundress; Cofound v.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 429. Shee is set downe to be co-foundresse with him.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, London (1811), II. 58 (D.). [The Steeple of St. Paul’s] was originally co-founded by King Ethelbert with the Body of the Church.
1797. Cambr. Univ. Calendar, 59. Queen Elizabeth … is annually commemorated as a co-foundress of the college.
